Agenda item

Proposed Changes To The Public Path Network At Hunshelf Bank, Stocksbridge, Sheffield

Report of the Director of Business Strategy.

 

Minutes:

6.1

The Director of Culture, Parks and Leisure submitted a report to seek authority to process the Public Path Diversion Orders required for definitive public footpaths STO\2A and STO\3 at Hunshelf Bank, Stocksbridge, Sheffield S36 and the Creation Order required to convert public footpaths STO\2A, STO\3 and part of STO\1B, at Hunshelf Bank, Stocksbridge, to bridleways, conditional on successful completion of the Public Path Diversion Order.

 

6.2

Statutory Undertakers, Emergency Services and other relevant bodies had been consulted as well as Stocksbridge Town Council and the Peak District National Park Authority. No objections had been received.

 

6.3

RESOLVED: That:-

 

(1)  no objections be raised to the proposed diversion of parts of definitive public footpaths STO\2a and STO\3, as shown on the plan included as Appendix A, subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with Statutory Undertakers in connection with any of their mains and services that may be affected;

 

(2)  the proposal to make a Creation Order required to convert the existing footpaths, and those created following completion of the Diversion Order, into a bridleway, under the powers contained within Section 26 of the Highways Act 1980, as shown on the plan included as Appendix B, be approved;

 

(3)  authority be given to the Director of Legal & Governance to

take all necessary action to divert the footpaths under the powers contained within Section 119 of the Highways Act 1980;

 

(4)  the Order be confirmed as an Unopposed Order, in the event of no objections being received, or any objections received being resolved;

 

(5)  authority be given for the taking of all necessary action to make the Creation Order required to convert the existing footpaths, and those created following completion of the Diversion Order, into a bridleway, under the powers contained within Section 26 of the Highways Act 1980; and

 

(6)  the Creation Order be confirmed as an Unopposed Order, in the event of no objections being received, or any objections received being resolved.

 

 

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