Bridleway cannot be downgraded
Bridleway cannot be downgraded
- 1989
- Daily Telegraph 24/7/89 p18 .
Although a footpath had been mistakenly marked as a bridleway on a map prepared in the 1950s under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, the appeal in R v SoS for the Environment, ex parte Burrows and Another to have the highway redesignated as a footpath was dismissed since Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 s56(1)(b) provides that evidence from the map shall be conclusive.
Although a footpath had been mistakenly marked as a bridleway on a map prepared in the 1950s under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, the appeal in R v SoS for the Environment, ex parte Burrows and Another to have the highway redesignated as a footpath was dismissed since Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 s56(1)(b) provides that evidence from the map shall be conclusive.