Reclassifying footpaths

Reclassifying footpaths - 1992 - Times 17 September 1992, LT23(1) .

In "Mayhew v SoS for the Environment",CA 10 July 1992, it was held that in deciding whether to reclassify a footpath as a byway open to all traffic a surveying authority was entitled to consider only whether vehicular rights of way existed along the footpath and could not take into account the desirability or suitability of such a reclassification.


FOOTPATHS
RIGHTS OF WAY
VEHICULAR ACCESS
WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981