TTT in partnership with the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (MHAONB) unit has submitted a green infrastructure (rights of way) trial proposal to Defra to be considered as a public access test under the environmental land management subsidy scheme trials. See more about the Mendip Hills AONB at http://www.mendiphillsaonb.org.uk
Category: How-to Guides
The Creation of Highways
The Trails Trust publication – all about express dedication – case law and benefits of use to landowners, users and local highway authorities Express Dedication at Common Law (EDCL) This paper provides a legal basis for both the Defra Guidance and an analysis of the benefits of using highway creation through express dedication and acceptance […]
Legal advice on Creation of highways
In 2017, TTT asked barrister Matthew White to advise on creation of highways at common law, in particular in the light of reluctance on the part of some (by no means all) local authorities to recognise highways that have not been created within a statutory framework. In his response, Matthew White makes reference to the […]
Public Inquiry success: Upper Vobster, 2012/13
The Trails Trust approach has been tested at least once at public inquiry, and helped to bring about a successful Appeal. Somerset County Council had refused to make an order to show as a Bridleway on the County Council’s Definitive Map and Statement a route previously shown as a Footpath, leading from the public highway […]
DEFRA advice on Express Dedication
Below is a letter sent from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to Natural England, in November 2012. The letter was intended to offer guidance on legal and practical issues relating to the express dedication of public rights of way at common law (EDCL) in England. It represents Defra’s view of […]
TTT guide to creating Rights of Way
Creating Multi-User Public Rights of Way – A Guide for Local Groups written by Rachel Thompson MBE for The Trails Trust in 2011. About this document – the book was supported by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and by Natural England. The book explains in detail TTT’s unique approach in using […]