Latest legal issues

An experimental Traffic Reulation Order has been proposed  for Chapel Gate.  Read Chapel Gate consultation documents.

Highway authorities are responsible for producing what is called the Definitive Map – this gives the legal status of routes and says who can and can’t use them. The legal right to use many of these routes has yet to be clarified. You can find out more about this at the following locations

Cheshire East Council
Derbyshire County Council
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Sheffield City Council
Staffordshire County Council

Barnsley and Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Councils don't currently have a register of applications, but their rights of way web pages can be found here:

Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council

Latest News Regarding the Winchester Case

At the Derbyshire County Council Regulatory Licensing & Appeals Committee on 18 October 2010 (Item 5) members resolved to close claims for Byway Open to All Traffic on the following routes within the Peak District National Park:

• Claim to upgrade Great Longstone Public Bridleway No 26 (known as Taylors Lane) to a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 10 September 2003) – Case 19768
• Claim to add route known as Green Lane, Pikehall as a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 17 November 2004) – Case 25549
• Claim to upgrade Hartington Public Footpath No.1 to a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 31 October 2004) – Case 24869
• Claim to upgrade Hope Public Bridleway No. 32 & Hope Woodlands Public Bridleway No. 5 to Byways Open to All Traffic (dated 9 December 2003) – Case 20884
• Claim to upgrade Hope Woodlands Public Bridleway No. 12 to a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 17 July 2002) – Case 15173
• Claim to upgrade Hope Woodlands Public Bridleway No. 13 to a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 17 July 2002) – Case 15168
• Claim to upgrade Hope Woodlands Public Bridleway No. 14 to a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 17 July 2002) – Case 15174
• Claim to upgrade Taddington Public Footpath Nos. 45 & 46 to Byways Open to All Traffic (dated 26 February 2004) – Case 22043
• Claim to upgrade Tideswell Public Footpath No. 8 to a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 4 March 2004) – Case 22310
• Claim to add route running between Water Lane and Wheston Bank, Tideswell as a Byway Open to All Traffic (dated 30 January 2004) – Case 21907

More information about these resolutions will be posted, along with plans, in the next edition of Staying on the Right Track in the New Year.

Derbyshire County Council is continuing to investigate other claims for Byway Open to All Traffic, for further information about this issue please contact Peter Jackson in their Legal Department (01629 580000).

If you have any concerns about a route and want us to look at its legal status please email rightsofway@peakdistrict.gov.uk