Mar. 22 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeals: land south of Chiswell Green Lane and land north of Chiswell Green Lane, St. Albans (refs: 3313110 and 3312277 - 22 March 2024)Found: Recovered appeals: land south of Chiswell Green Lane and land north of Chiswell Green Lane, St.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Hayman of Ullock (Lab - Life peer) of Way Act 2000 included provisions for a cut-off date of 1 January 2026 for registering those rights - Speech Link
2: Earl Russell (LD - Excepted Hereditary) historic rights of way for footpaths and bridleways from 1 January 2026 to 1 January 2031. - Speech Link
3: None We have a fantastic rights of way network across England, with some 120,000 miles of footpaths, bridleways - Speech Link
4: None years to submit applications for recording historic rights of way. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) of footpaths, bridleways and other tracks. - Speech Link
2: Lord Thurlow (CB - Excepted Hereditary) their promise to repeal the deadline once and for all. - Speech Link
3: Lord Benyon (CON - Life peer) recording historic rights of way. - Speech Link
Formal Minutes Nov. 18 2021
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: Formal Minutes 2019-21: List of closed petitions Formal Minutes
Formal Minutes Apr. 01 2021
Committee: Petitions CommitteeFound: Formal Minutes 2017-19: List of closed petitions Formal Minutes
Asked by: Sarah Champion (Labour - Rotherham)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if he will extend the 2026 deadline to record historic footpaths and bridleways onto Definitive Maps.
Answered by Rebecca Pow - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
Defra intends to pass legislation this year to streamline the processes for recording and changing rights of way. This will make it easier and quicker for local authorities to process applications and add rights of way onto the definitive maps, protecting them for the future. As part of this we will bring into force the cut-off date which is the deadline for registering historic rights of way. This will provide certainty about where rights of way exist.
The cut-off date is currently 2026 and could be extended by regulations for a maximum of five years. An earlier cut-off date will provide certainty on where rights of way exist for both users and landowners. A later cut-off date would allow more time for unrecorded rights of way to be recorded. Defra is working closely with stakeholders to understand these different views and will take them into account when reaching a decision.
Extend the existing deadline of 1st January 2026 to record historic paths onto Definitive Maps (as required by the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000) for a further 10 years until 2036.
Recording a single path can take years, more time is needed to record them all, or they will be lost for ever.
Found: Thousands of our historic Rights of Way, some used for centuries, are not officially mapped.
Mentions:
1: Lord Carrington (CB - Excepted Hereditary) and bridleways created before 1949 cannot be recorded after 1 January 2026. - Speech Link
2: Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts (CON - Life peer) There is an application here when we come to look at the opening up of bridleways and footpaths. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville (LDEM - Life peer) I have received interesting briefs from a range of organisations, all saying that the deadline of 2026 - Speech Link
4: Baroness Jones of Whitchurch (LAB - Life peer) As noble Lords have said, we are now in danger of hitting the 2026 deadline with the job half done. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None land belonging to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty (“the Trust”) - Speech Link
2: None extinguishment of footpaths or bridleways which pass through the curtilage of residential dwellings - Speech Link
3: Lord Skelmersdale (CON - Excepted Hereditary) concrete, and they will of course be at the cut-off point in 2026. - Speech Link
4: Baroness Williams of Trafford (CON - Life peer) concerned with improving the processes for diverting, extinguishing and recording public rights of way - Speech Link
Found: seek to untangle and speed-up the processes for determining and recording rights of way.