Grant to help with cost of diverting footpath?

[som farmer]

These people are a nightmare. I had a footpath officer tell me in writing that a footpath was to rough and that if anybody injured themselves we would be liable. She was ignored but wouldnot drop it. Eventually she was removed from her position but I believe still within the council elsewhere.

it seems the lady officer in our case, was actually writing the letters of complaint. She was moved to a different job, funny that.

its when she told us, she would take us to court, to remove a building, that her manager told her to go and sit in the car, and wait for him.

but she never complained at me being very rude to her, as in feck off, which she had been known to do, l had witnesses, 4 of them, from the livery, they all thought l had been very restrained !

 

[Yale]

Footpaths are a dangerous animals, if you have a permissive path best to officially close it one day a year or you may end up with 2 permanent paths! Is the money not worth spending to increase the valve of your property? A yard without a path running through it is more valuable than one with

Can't emphasise enough, you are in danger of creating 2 FPs unless you close the permissive once a year. The fee for moving a PRO in this area was 3k ten years ago. The council would not spend the money on land they owned, just created a 2ndry route. Clearly not a concern in public used woodland.
Can you speak to the local ROW officer, then speak to the nearest rambling group and get a feel for the situation? The walking people are not going to stump up for the process, they have a ROW. Perhaps you could get a site meeting with Officer and Ramblers representative?

Whoa, all you need is a section 31 agreement done through your local footpaths office. @DrWazzock , we have just completed the process. Basically if you ask nicely the footpaths staff at the local council office will prepare a map of the whole farm identifying all official paths from the definitive map. You confirm as correct then no other path can be claimed for 20 years. In 20 years you simply lodge another. During that period you can set up permissive paths anywhere on the mapped farm without risk of a path being claimed as official. The only awkward bit was finding a tame solicitor in our case to witness signatures or a JP or another official like a registrar or something. Cost us zero £.

 

[theboytheboy]

Been in identical situation 5yrs ago. Dad moved the path which was semi adopted but unofficially.

The risk you have is then creating two public rights of way.

Took us 5 yrs and 5k but well worth it

I would pay £5k in a heartbeat!

£10k wouldn't make me think twice!

 

[Doing it for the kids]

I would pay £5k in a heartbeat!

£10k wouldn't make me think twice!

Yes there are many pros, for us it was safety, privacy and capital value

Footpath walking lot are a funny bunch, some want it longer, some shorter and some who just say No

 

[steveR]

FWIW, when I was chatting with a prospective Developer for some more Solar on some outlying land over which a FP runs diagonally.

His attitude was "that is no problem, we just divert around the perimeter of the site!" So it can obviously be done...