Rights Of Way
English Heretics will have us believe we are not allowed near "their " land...... Well the law says different!.
Click on the link below and have a good look.
https://www.rowmaps.com/
Rights of way data for 116 authorities in England and Wales have been released with an open licence. This web site can superimpose the rights of way of these authorities onto an underlying map which can be from the Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap or Bing. You can ask for a map that is close to a specific place. You can also ask for transport stops (such as bus stops) to be added to the map. The web site also has details about how you could include a map on your own web page, and how you can build a route for a walk, run, etc., by selecting several rights of way and then outputting this route in KML or GPX. This web site also provides links to the original data, derived KML files, derived CSV files and derived GeoJSON files. Changes to this web site are tweeted to @rowmaps and are also listed on the tweets web page.
Click on the link below and have a good look.
https://www.rowmaps.com/
Rights of way data for 116 authorities in England and Wales have been released with an open licence. This web site can superimpose the rights of way of these authorities onto an underlying map which can be from the Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap or Bing. You can ask for a map that is close to a specific place. You can also ask for transport stops (such as bus stops) to be added to the map. The web site also has details about how you could include a map on your own web page, and how you can build a route for a walk, run, etc., by selecting several rights of way and then outputting this route in KML or GPX. This web site also provides links to the original data, derived KML files, derived CSV files and derived GeoJSON files. Changes to this web site are tweeted to @rowmaps and are also listed on the tweets web page.
Some Current Access News
BOAT 12 Reduction in width by new fencing by wood Larkhill end
Lois Mary Lloyd·Wednesday, 10 July 2019
24 June 2019 Reply from Wiltshire Council “Lois Thank you for your email. So far as Council officers who have attended on site are concerned, the stock proof fencing which appears to have been put in by the existing landowners, simply follows the boundary line between the highway (byway 12) and the adjacent private land. A landowner is entitled to fence land in their ownership and officers do not consider that the fencing reduces the legal width of the byway so it does not affect the legal width of byways nor would the fencing require formal action under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Please note that the Council would not look to take action concerning any small deviations with the line of the fencing as they would be considered to be ‘de minimus’ in law i.e. so minor that the deviations should be disregarded.
Other than the Council’s representations to the Examining Authority (A303) made on the Specific Issue hearing (Highways and Transportation) on 13 June and for Deadline 4 – all of which will be (or are due to be) published on the Planning Inspectorate website – National Infrastructure Planning – A303 Stonehenge, Legal Services do not currently have instructions concerning future changes to the WHS byways. “
Lois Mary Lloyd·Wednesday, 10 July 2019
24 June 2019 Reply from Wiltshire Council “Lois Thank you for your email. So far as Council officers who have attended on site are concerned, the stock proof fencing which appears to have been put in by the existing landowners, simply follows the boundary line between the highway (byway 12) and the adjacent private land. A landowner is entitled to fence land in their ownership and officers do not consider that the fencing reduces the legal width of the byway so it does not affect the legal width of byways nor would the fencing require formal action under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Please note that the Council would not look to take action concerning any small deviations with the line of the fencing as they would be considered to be ‘de minimus’ in law i.e. so minor that the deviations should be disregarded.
Other than the Council’s representations to the Examining Authority (A303) made on the Specific Issue hearing (Highways and Transportation) on 13 June and for Deadline 4 – all of which will be (or are due to be) published on the Planning Inspectorate website – National Infrastructure Planning – A303 Stonehenge, Legal Services do not currently have instructions concerning future changes to the WHS byways. “