Public Footpaths No. 27 (Part) & 31 (Part) Blore with Swinscoe Parish) Public Path Diversion and Definitive Map and Statement Modification Order 2023

Public Path Diversion and Definitive Map and Statement Modification Order 

Highways Act 1980 

Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 

Staffordshire County Council

(Public Footpaths No.27 (Part) & 31 (Part) Blore with Swinscoe Parish) Public Path Diversion and Definitive Map and Statement Modification Order 2023 

This Order is made by Staffordshire County Council (“the Authority”) under section 119 of the Highways Act 1980 (“the 1980 Act”) because it appears to the Authority that in the interests of the owners of the land crossed by the footpaths described in paragraph 1 of this Order it is expedient that the line of the path should be diverted. 

Mr R Webb and Ms L Phillips of Leasow, Town End Lane, Swinscoe DE6 2HS have agreed to defray any compensation which becomes payable in consequence of the coming into force of this Order and any expenses which are incurred in bringing the new site of the paths into a fit condition for use by the public.

The Staffordshire Moorlands District Council have been consulted as required by section 120(2) of the 1980 Act. 

This Order is also made under Section 53A(2) of the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) because it appears to the authority that the Definitive Map and Statement for the area require modification in consequence of the occurrence of an event specified in Section 53(3)(a)(i) of the 1981 Act, namely the diversion (as authorised by this Order) of a highway shown or required to be shown in the Map and Statement. 

By This Order 

1. The public rights of way over the land situate at Leasow, Town End Lane  in the Parish of Blore with Swinscoe and shown by bold continuous lines on the map contained in this Order and described in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order shall be stopped up with effect from the date on which Staffordshire County Council certify that the works to bring the new site of the footpaths, described in Part 2 of the Schedule to this Order, into a fit condition for use by the public has been carried out to their reasonable satisfaction, and thereupon the Definitive Map for the area shall be modified by deleting from it those public rights of way.
2.  Where immediately before the date on which the footpaths are diverted there is apparatus under, in, on, over, along or across them belonging to statutory undertakers for the purpose of carrying on their undertaking, the undertakers shall continue to have the same rights in respect of the apparatus as they then had.
3. There shall upon the date of confirmation of this Order be public footpaths over the land situate at Leasow, Town End Lane in the Parish of Blore with Swinscoe described in Part 2 of the Schedule and shown by a bold broken line on the map contained in this Order and thereupon the Definitive Map for the area shall be modified by adding those paths to it. 

Given under the Common Seal of the Staffordshire County Council on 

Tuesday 28 March Two thousand and Twenty-Three

The Common Seal of

Staffordshire County Council

was hereunto affixed in the presence of:

Authorised Signatory

Confirmed as an unopposed Order on the 27 day of February Two Thousand and twenty four 

P Dalton

Schedule 

Part 1 

Description of Site of Existing Path or Way 

Public Footpath, Blore with Swinscoe No 27 (Part) 

The full width of that part of Public Footpath, Blore with Swinscoe No 27 commencing at Grid Reference 413171, 347806 (Point C on the Plan) and running in a generally south easterly directions for a distance of approximately 93 metres to Grid Reference 413243, 347748 (Point D on the Plan). 

Public Footpath, Blore with Swinscoe No 31 (Part) 

The full width of that part of Public Footpath, Blore with Swinscoe No 31 commencing at Grid Reference 413176, 347846 (Point A on the Plan) and running in southerly direction for a distance of approximately 41 meters Grid Reference 413171, 347806 (Point C on the Plan) and continuing in a southerly direction for a distance of 87 metres to Grid Reference 413161, 347720 (Point E on the Plan). 

Part 2

Description of Site of New Path or Way 

Public Footpath, Blore with Swinscoe No 27 (Part) 

Public Footpath, 2 metres wide, commencing at Grid Reference 413243, 347748 (Point D on the Plan) and running in a generally north north-westerly direction for a distance of approximately 67 metres to its junction with Public Footpath Blore with Swinscoe No 31 at Grid Reference 413218, 347811 (Point B on the Plan). 

Public Footpath, Blore with Swinscoe No 31 (Part) 

Public Footpath, 2 metres wide, commencing at Grid Reference 413176, 347846 (Point A on the Plan) and running in a generally south easterly direction for a distance of approximately 62 metres to Grid Reference 413218, 347811 (Point B on the Plan) and then continuing in a south south-westerly direction for a distance of approximately 108 metres to Grid Reference 413161, 347720 (Point E on the Plan).

Part 3 

Modification of Definitive Statement 

Variation of Particulars of Path