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Norfolk footpath to stay put.

19/1/2016

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IF Comment on this result.
 A member of ‘ the public’ only asking that walkers should go round his property instead of straight through his garden!
Breckland council have a duty to protect the rights of an individual just as much, if not more, than ‘pressure’ groups. It is ‘the pressure’ groups who exercise no common sense or empathy and force sensible councils to spend ‘public money’. The ‘home owner’ has to pay his own expenses.
We remain quite disgusted with this attitude which purports to be in the public interest, but clearly is not.

From the Open Spaces Society

26 February 2015 
We are delighted that, thanks to our objection, a public footpath in Norfolk’s Breckland District will remain on its ancient, direct route.
The footpath is at Lyng, four miles south of Reepham.  Breckland District Council wanted to move the route which runs past the property Patholme.  The council was concerned that the existence of the path was detrimental to the interests of the property’s occupiers, and wanted to shove the path around the edge of the field to the west, introducing two dog-legs.
Mr Ian Witham, the Open Spaces Society’s representative in Norfolk, objected on behalf of the society and the matter was referred to the Planning Inspectorate for determination.
The inspector, Mrs Helen Slade, did not consider that there was any evidence of a problem.  She wrote that on her site visit ‘it took a matter of less than 30 second to cross the garden area.  I noted that the windows overlooking the path were dressed with blinds to afford privacy to the occupants’ and that there was no evidence ‘to suggest that users of the path feel uncomfortable using the path’.
Says Ian Witham: ‘We are delighted with this result.  Many properties co-exist with public paths nearby and there is no difficulty about this.  The inspector considered that, although the order had been made in the landowner’s interests, these had not been demonstrated.
‘We are sorry that Breckland District Council spent public money on this fruitless exercise but we are relieved that this footpath will stay on its historic route.’

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Holly
31/1/2016 11:22:14 am

Quote: Breckland District Council wanted to move the route which runs past the property Patholme. Well done Breckland District Council! However they also wanted to SHOVE the path around the edge of the field. Who exactly was SHOVING who? Mrs Helen Slade (I'm assuming she has some legal background and is not an ex PRoW officer) noticed the windows were dressed with blinds and there was no evidence to suggest users of the path felt uncomfortable using the path. Did anyone ask the the owners of the property or any walkers using this path if they were uncomfortable? I would personally feel very uncomfortable if the owners had been having a family bbq in their garden and I had strolled through! I am very sorry that anyone felt the need to spend public money on any of this fruitless exercise, if people wish to walk learn to walk around fields and a couple of dog legs it really isn't that inconvenient, I am sure a bit of extra walking is so good for ones health and maybe the owners of the property can then remove their blinds and look out on to their own garden and use their space for the purpose they bought it for. Where is the common sense to all this?

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Ivy Fern
1/2/2016 10:15:06 am

Common Sense!!!!!!!! There isn't any, it's obsolete!!!

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