Category Archives: Rights of Way

REPEALING THE DEFINITIVE MAP CUT-OFF

21/05/2024 by admin | Comments Off

by Susan Taylor

REPEALING THE DEFINITIVE MAP CUT-OFF! – MARVELLOUS SUPPORT WITHIN THE HOUSE OF LORDS! We now have some members of the upper house right behind us passing on tips on how to get DMS Cut-Off REPEALED!!!

Lord Thurlow, a cross-bencher in the HoL, telephoned me this week in response to my letters, to urge ME/ALL OF YOU/to step up our letter campaign to defeat the definitive map CUT-OFF in 2031!

‘Its’ NOT TOO LATE TO GET THIS BAD LAW REPEALED’ HE SAID. HIS LIKE-MINDED COLLEAGUES WERE ALL RELIEVED WHEN A REPEAL ANNOUNCEMENT WAS MADE TWO YEARS AGO! AND WERE AS DISBELIEIVNG AND ANGRY AS US WHEN IT WAS REINSTATED. His advice to us all now is to:

1. “KEEP SHAKING THE BONE! I support everything you’re saying. Keep it up! You must not give up!”

2.”Write to us, and especially Labour MP’s, telling us why you think CUT-OFF is bad so that we can represent your views – it’s well worth the stamps!

3.”Members are meeting the Secretary of State, Steve Barclay MP, to keep the pressure on for REPEAL.

4.”Be a pack of Rottweilers and keep pressing the Met Police to investigate alleged wrongdoing regarding unfair/bad treatment of your evidence [like ‘cross road’ does not automatically indicate public rights].

5. “Write to Baroness Susan Hayman of Ullock (Cumbria), a young, energetic Labour peer, strongly on your side and a force for good (Labour will probably take power next year). And write to Baroness Natalie Bennett of Manor Castle (Green Party). Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbotts is delightful, very enthusiastic and the best person to keep pestering.

6. “Horse riders don’t die on bridleways – but they die on the roads!” That message is powerful! Use it!

7. “I am happy to table questions in the House of Lords but it’s a lottery…it’s hard to be chosen. But send me your questions to ask Lord Benyon/Defra and I’ll do what I can to get answers!

8. “Make the mental health/countryside/wellbeing argument in your lobbying.

9. “Write to all your local Labour candidates for the next General Election.

10. “Ask the Law Society which peers are former high court judges and lobby them about your difficulties with the acceptance of your cross road evidence in your DMMO applications and at public inquiries. They will understand the problem.

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Thank you Lord Thurlow. We will ALL take your advice and WE’LL NEVER GIVE UP TRYING TO RID THE RIGHTS OF WAY LANDSCAPE OF THIS HEINOUS LAW DESIGNED TO MAKE THE RICH EVEN RICHER BY TAKING OVER OUR HIGHWAY AND BYWAY LAND.

The law locks up the man or woman that takes the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose that takes the common off the goose!

[The address of these peers is House of Lords, London, SW1A OPW.]

Or Google their email address if you prefer to email them.

The Trails Trust – PRIVATE CARRIAGE ROAD UPDATE

01/12/2023 by admin | Comments Off

PRIVATE CARRIAGE ROAD UPDATE : Andy Dunlop : Thank you Mr Dunlop for my early and best ever Xmas gift…your public acknowledgment that Denton byway 16 ‘…continued into Glatton’ in 1805!

I’ll trumpet that again because it’s NATIONALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE SURVIVAL OF ALL OUR THREATENED BYWAYS recorded as private carriage roads.

ANDY DUNLOP NOW AGREES that Denton’s byway 16 ‘RAN INTO GLATTON’ as a ‘PUBLIC HIGHWAY OR ROAD’ in 1805! You can clearly see this yellow road crossing the boundary into Glatton in the extract from the Denton Award map below. The colour stops on the boundary line…but, the road goes on into Glatton. This proves that Byway 16 was never a cul de sac serving only a mortar pit as claimed.

But nobody told this to Judge Sedley in the High Court hearing Dunlop v Department of Environment and Cambridgeshire County Council in 1995. So the perfectly sound Byway Orders for Glatton 7 & 5, correctly made by Cambridgeshire CC, were wrongly quashed.

And nobody told this to Inspector Davies who conducted the third and fourth PI’s after said quashing and wrongly confirmed bridleway Orders for Glatton 7 & 5.

This evidence was sitting in the archives…but never, ever came out….so the Dunlop ruling is UNSAFE!

The 1870 OS shows how the ancient Little Street Way in Glatton was swung around from a south east direction to a south west direction at point X in the later 1820 Glatton Award and combined with pre-existing ways to reach Glatton. This gave Glatton one forty foot wide, ditched, drained and hedged all-purpose connecting road to Denton instead of two narrower ancient ways of less utility.

And to further detract from Mr Dunlop’s argument, Parliament made that road repairable by all the inhabitants of Glatton in the same way as they were all obliged to repair all the public roads…so if non-frontagers were paying to repair all the private carriage roads, they could obviously drive over them…because it would have been iniquitous to charge poor ratepayers for repairs to roads for better off, privileged frontagers which they could never drive over themselves according to the Chief Planning Officer, Richard Schofield, according to me and according to common sense and social equity.

Defra’s legal counsel should have brought all this out in court. But didn’t! I think that was tactical. Defra wanted to lose private carriage roads/byways from the Definitive Map exactly like their politicians and officials are now trying to lose cross roads…by denying that they are byways through dishonest and totally corrupt denial of sound historical evidence. They now say “that a route shown on a map as a cross road is NO INDICATION of public rights”!!!! That’s outrageous rubbish. Shame on them! We won’t allow it.

PRIVATE CARRIAGE ROAD UPDATE

HCC diversions

30/10/2021 by admin | Comments Off

Bob Milton says:

Below are links to two extinguishment and diversion orders. One is part bridleway the other is MOD.

The Mod one is across Woolmer Forest/ Forkedpond Inclosure. Has this been through the MoD consultation group? I also note that E-D is not available on the ground.

It is a shame that the Mod have not taken the opportunity to dedicate the FP as a Bridleway so as to link with the peripheral BW part of the Shipwrights way and BW6 Bramshott at Conford instead of FP12 ending in the A3 fence. I seem to remember that there was to be some form of circular route along Woolmer road.

THE HAM 1

THE HAMPSHIRE EAST HAMPSHIRE DISTRICT