Decision details

Purpose of report: This report seeks to determine whether or not to make an omnibus Definitive Map Modification Order to add the routes within the Acomb, Dringhouses.

Members are asked to: Consider all the evidence available regarding the status of all the routes.

RESOLVED:             That the Executive Member agrees to:

i)          Authorise the (Interim) Head of Civic, Democratic and Legal Services to make and advertise the required Definitive Map Modification Orders to add all those paths to the Definitive Map, where it is recommended based on the evidence available, to make an Order (see bottom of page of each Schedule (Annexes 1-3) for recommended action). 

ii)        If no objections are received, or any objections received are subsequently withdrawn, the Orders referred to in i) above be confirmed; or

iii)      If objections are received, and not withdrawn, the Orders, or relevant parts thereof, be referred to the Secretary of State for determination;

iv)       Request the Director of City Strategy to report to a future Decision Session the position on any outstanding requests for footpath diversion, closure or gating orders for the Acomb, Dringhouses and Westfield Wards, and to make recommendations on how any backlog of work can be addressed.

REASON:                  As surveying authority for the area, the Council for the City of York has a statutory duty (Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, section 55(3)), to produce a Definitive Map and Statement for the former County Borough of York; and in doing so is obliged to make Definitive Map Modification Orders to register the existence of all public rights of way in that area.