Agenda item

The Panel considered a report by the Director for Corporate Services on an application submitted under Section 53 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 for the addition of a Public Footpath from the  highway to Chebsey to the highway to Norton Bridge Chebsey on the Definitive Map of Public Rights of Way.

The Director verbally presented various legal, documentary and historical pieces of evidence relevant to the application, explaining that the Panel was required to consider in totality all available evidence and apply relevant legal tests when deciding whether to accept or reject the application.

The Panel was presented with the following evidence:

A.   Copy of application

B.   Plan

C.   Railway Plan 1872

D.  Ordnance Survey Plan 1880

E.   Parish Survey Card and Plan 1951

F.   Statutory Consultee Responses

G.  Extract from Book

Decided –

(i) that the evidence submitted by the applicant shown at Appendix A to the report is sufficient to show the Public Footpath may be Reasonably Alleged to subsist along the route marked A to B on the Plan submitted at Appendix B to the report.

(ii) that an Order be made to add the right of way shown marked A to B on the plan attached at Appendix B, to the Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way for the Borough of Stafford; the minimum width of the footpath to be 1 metre throughout its length.