Issue - meetings
Update on Progress on Statutory Registers for Rights of Way.
Meeting: 19/07/2021 - Stockport Local Access Forum (outside body) (Item 9)
9 Update on Progress on Statutory Registers for Rights of Way 
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To consider a report of the Head of Highways and Transportation.
This report provides an update on the proposed way forward to improve the Statutory Registers on the Council website.
The Forum is recommended to comment on and note the report.
Officer contact: Sue Stevenson on 0161 474 4596 or email: sue.stevenson@stockport.gov.uk
Additional documents:
- Enc. 1 for Update on Progress on Statutory Registers for Rights of Way., item 9
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- Enc. 2 for Update on Progress on Statutory Registers for Rights of Way., item 9
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- Webcast for Update on Progress on Statutory Registers for Rights of Way
Minutes:
The Director of Place Management submitted a report (copies of which had been circulated) providing an update on the proposed way forward to improve the Statutory Registers on the Council website.
The following comments were made/ issues raised:-
· The longstanding concerns of members of the Forum were acknowledged and it was stated that progress continued to made behind the scenes.
· It was stated that the most recent applications listed on the Council’s Section 53 register did not provide sufficient information to allow anyone to register an objection to the application. Concern was further expressed in relation to the quality of the associated mapping which made them difficult to interpret.
· Comments were made in relation the available staffing resource to satisfactorily tackle the backlog of work in the rights of way service.
RESOLVED – That the report be noted.