Statutory registers

 

Landowners can make a written declaration to the council to state that they recognise all existing public paths on their land but do not want any new public paths to be created. This protects them from paths being claimed across their land (see claimed paths).

 

The maps showing land under a s31(6) declaration are public documents and can be viewed in our offices. There are currently approximately thirty separate areas of land around the city that are protected from future claims of public paths in this way.

 

Please contact us for further details.

 

 

Applications made and not yet determined under Schedule 14 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981: 0

 

Applications made and not yet determined under Section 31 of the Highways Act 1980: 43

 

Estimated number of other paths which require investigating (for which there is no current timescale or staff resources available): 480

 

The council will give priority to determining the status of any path whose use by the public has been stopped, if sufficient evidence of use can be supplied by the public via claim forms (see claimed paths).