I have successfully got a new Bridleway!

SEL said:
So the one a local lady has put a DMMO in on the BHS register thing is a bridleway that a farmer has blocked off with 2 pedestrian only gates. It's now showing as a footpath on ordnance survey maps but he's never formally had permission to change the use. So does that count as an unrecorded path?
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If this has hisorically been used as a bridleway, I would say he has blocked it illegally. Speak to the council about removing the obstruction pending processing of the DMMO. You might also consider an injunction preventing him blocking it again.
 
Scruffyponies! My advice would be to check as to what status the path is recorded as on the Definitive map of your County. (This is the County Councils map that records all public rights of way). If it is of bridleway status then ask the local Rights Of Way team to put an enforcement order on the landowner and get the gates replaced by gates that can be opened from horseback. If it is not recorded as a Bridleway then get user evidence forms completed by everyone that has ever used the route. Also try to determine when the gates were erected as this will also be useful. If you need any help then contact your local BHS access officer or myself on peter.natt@btinternet.com.
 
PeterNatt said:
Scruffyponies! My advice would be to check as to what status the path is recorded as on the Definitive map of your County. (This is the County Councils map that records all public rights of way). If it is of bridleway status then ask the local Rights Of Way team to put an enforcement order on the landowner and get the gates replaced by gates that can be opened from horseback. If it is not recorded as a Bridleway then get user evidence forms completed by everyone that has ever used the route. Also try to determine when the gates were erected as this will also be useful. If you need any help then contact your local BHS access officer or myself on peter.natt@btinternet.com.
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Fortunately we don't have gates on ours, just a huffy sign put up by the county council in response to a single complaint from the rather single minded (read fascist) local walkers group. We just ride around the sign but only because we're too polite to go down there at night and pull it up. It was only the signage which alerted us to it not being a bridleway on the definitive map. We had been happily using it for literally generations, and have even dug out a letter from the Town Clerk to a local famer dated c. 1980 which refers to it as such, with a map for reference :)
 
As others have said , what remarkable perseverance, I take my hat off to you @PeterNatt . Thanks in behalf of every who will use the RoW.

As far as the council goes, words fail me!
 
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