Content tagged with: rights of way

• Public rights of way - temporary closures

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/public-rights-of-way-temporary-closures

  From time to time it is necessary to temporary close a public right of way in the interest of safety for users. Details of temporary closures are shown below.

• Confirmed Map Changes

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/map-changes

  The Explorer series of maps from the Ordnance Survey carries rights of way information that is up to date when the map is published. Explorer 279 covers the majority of the Doncaster area.

• Proposed Map Changes

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/proposed-map-changes

  For a range of reasons it may be thought necessary or desirable to make changes to the existing rights of way network. Possible reasons include recognising public rights on previously unrecorded Public Rights of Way, requests to divert an existing Right of Way to enable development or improve land management, changing the status of a route (from footpath to bridleway for instance) or, very rarely, to extinguish a right of way.

• Register of formal and informal claims for Public Rights of Way

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/register-of-formal-claims-for-public-rights-of-way

  Under the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000, every Local Authority is required to maintain and publicise a register of formal claims for new Rights of Way (Footpaths, Bridleways and Restricted Byways) and amendments to existing Rights of Way. In additional there are other ways that have been brought to the Authority's attention that may have public rights or are believed to have different rights than those recorded on the Definitive Map of Public Rights of Way, these are known as informal claims.

• Public rights of way pages

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/public-rights-of-way-pages

  Links below to information about public rights of way:

• Rights of Way Improvement Plans

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/rights-of-way-improvement-plans

  The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 introduced a new duty to every Highway Authority to publish a Rights of Way Improvement Plan (ROWIP).

• Get involved - public rights of way

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/services/culture-leisure-tourism/get-involved-public-rights-of-way

  There are plenty of opportunities for you to get involved in making the best of our countryside and rights of way.

• Report it: Right of way problem

  www.doncaster.gov.uk/doitonline/right-of-way-problem

  To report a problem on a public right of way.