Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration.

NOTE: This item has been carried forward from the cancelled meeting of 17 March 2020.

A report of the Deputy Chief Executive was submitted (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update on the activities of Legal Services towards implementing Definitive Map Modification Orders.

The following comments were made/ issues raised:-

·         The list of outstanding ‘Definitive Map Modification Orders’ (DMMOs) actually consisted of a mixture of DMMOs made under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and diversion or extinguishment orders made under the Highways Act 1980.  It was again reiterated that future such reports should separate out these different categories of order.

·         It was commented that the report provided insufficient information to allow members to readily understand the routes to which they related.  It was suggested that items within the report could be supplemented by mapping to assist with this.

·         Concern was expressed that orders that had been approved by the relevant area committee some years ago had now been highlighted within the report as requiring further investigation.

·         It was stated the Council’s Legal Services department now had additional capacity to progress a number of the outstanding orders.  However, because some time has passed, in a number of cases, since the original decision of the area committees, work needed to take place to advise landowners of the intention to now implement those orders.

RECOMMENDED – (1) That the report be noted.

(2) That the Deputy Chief Executive be requested to revise the format of the report to separate out the various types of order made to make the report more readily understandable by members of the Forum.

To consider a report of the Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration.