Issue - meetings

To consider an application to amend the Definitive Map and Statement to add a Public Footpath between Footpath No.9 Hassall to the junction with Footpath No.8 Hassall.

The Committee considered a report which outlined the investigation into the application that was made on the 24 August 2015 to amend the Definitive Map and Statement to add a Public Footpath between Footpath No.9 Hassall (junction with Hassall Moss, UY1177) to junction with Footpath No.8 Hassall from A-B-C Plan ref: WCA/042 (Appendix 1).

The Committee considered the evidence submitted and researched in the application to add a Public Footpath in the Parish of Hassall. The Committee agreed that the requirements of Section 53(3)(c)(i) had not been met and that there was insufficient evidence to make a Definitive Map Modification Order to record a public footpath between footpath No.9 & footpath No.8 Hassall.

RESOLVED: Unanimously

That The Highways & Transport Committee

1. Agree that the application for the addition of the footpath as shown between points A-B-C on Plan No. WCA/042 at Appendix 1 of the report, be refused on the grounds that there is not any robust evidence to overturn the legal presumption that the Definitive Map and Statement are correct