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Definitive Map Review – Payhembury parish

• Public Rights of Way
• Definitive Map and Statement
• Payhembury paths
• How the Definitive Map Review process

works

• What will happen next and how you can

get involved

Definitive Map Review – Payhembury parish

What are public rights of way?

Walkers only Walkers, horse-riders and cyclists Walkers, cyclists, horse-riders and horse-drawn vehicles Walkers, cyclists, horse-riders, horse-drawn vehicles and motor vehicles

Payhembury Definitive Map

• It is the legal record of the existence of

public rights of ways.

• In two parts:

Map

• Shows the route of the right of way

Statement

• Description of the right of way
• Status

Made in 1950s but drawn on Ordnance Survey 2nd Edition 6” map from 1905

How did the Definitive Map arise?

National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949

Payhembury Parish Council surveyed paths in the parish in September 1950 recommending which

• nes they thought

should be recorded as public rights of way. Honiton Rural District Council and Devon County Council added comments. A draft map was published – the public could

• bject to errors or
• missions – with

recourse to the Secretary of State. Once objections had been determined a provisional map was published in 1963.

1966 - final Definitive Map published.

Paths were surveyed by C. J. Jarvis, H. Daniel and W. L. Carnell.

Example of a route

Payhembury Footpath No. 11

From: County Road A373 To: Hembury Fort The path is a Footpath. It starts at the Cullompton/Honiton Road, County Road A373, 150 yards south east of Hembury Fort Cross, and proceeds northwards looping over the remains of Hembury Fort, pre- Roman Fort of historical interest.

What rights of way are recorded in Payhembury parish?

4 Footpaths; 1 Bridleway

They can be seen on:

• Ordnance Survey Explorer Map – 115, Exmouth &

Sidmouth (with Honiton) 1:25,000 scale

• Internet: from www.devon.gov.uk/prow Public Rights of

Way; where to Walk, Ride and Cycle in Devon; My Local Paths www.devon.gov.uk/mylocalpaths - interactive map

• Definitive Map Review Parish Map

Parish Map

Why is there a Review?

• Devon County Council - Surveying Authority
• Statutory duty to keep the Definitive Map and

Statement under continuous review (Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981)

• Review process: on a parish-by-parish basis

across the whole county

• East Devon district: Payhembury’s turn to start

next

Changes to the Definitive Map

Also – Highways Act 1980: diversions funded by the landowners, within the parish and creations/dedications (ROWIP - Rights of Way Improvement Plan); extinguishments

Reviews in 1960s and 1970s – not completed

Changes that can be made through the review process need to involve existing rights, not desired rights (these are dealt with separately). Changes can include the following:

• Adding a route that is not recorded as a public right of way
• Upgrading or downgrading an existing recorded right of way
• Deleting a recorded right of way, or amending recorded details in the

Map & Statement that evidence indicates is wrong

Parish Map prepared Routes researched & evidence evaluated Old files checked Public meeting to explain review procedure Consultation map & schedule produced Public consultation

How do changes happen?

Definitive Map Review Procedure

Informal consultation

1 2 3 4 5 6

(Formal consultation)

Report to Committee - Authority to make Order(s) Inform Parish & Local Councils Order(s) published Objection period ends Unopposed Order(s) Order(s) confirmed Formal consultation

7 8 9 10 11

Opposed Order(s) Order(s) referred to Secretary of State Order(s) confirmed Order(s) not confirmed

12

(Statutory consultation)

What evidence to gather?

Report then submitted to Public Rights of Way Committee

• Documentary evidence:
• Maps
• Photographs
• Estate plans
• Other sources
• Landowner evidence forms
• User evidence forms

Issues already identified – Hembury Fort

Signs erected by landowner in 2012 stating ‘private woodland, no access’

• r something similar.

Devon County Council subsequently received many user evidence forms from people who had used various routes across the land and wanted them recorded as public rights of way. Will be investigated as part of this review.

What you need to do next...

• Gather evidence of use, (supply of User Evidence

Forms with the Parish Clerk, please attach maps to forms)

• Come forward with any suggested changes to

rights of way network

• Locate any old parish maps and let me see them

Any suggestions in by 14th June 2019

Tom Green Public Rights of Way Officer Devon County Council 01392 383000 thomas.green@devon.gov.uk www.devon.gov.uk/prow

Definitive Map Review Payhembury parish