COUNCILLORS are being recommended to add a number of footpaths to Warrington’s definitive rights-of-way map, following an application from a local resident.
The footpaths are at Great Sankey and run from the north end of the two spurs of Mayfair Close in an easterly direction to Barrowhall Lane, including links to Cronulla Drive and from the footpath in a westerly direction to Lingley Green Avenue along the bank of Whittle Brook.
More than 40 people have provided evidence that the paths have been used for more than 20 years.
The land crossed by the paths forms a narrow belt between existing housing and Whittle Brook and is owned by three seprate landowners – Wainhomes, Warrington Borough Council and Warrington Housing Association.
Evidence provided by members of the public suggests some of the paths have been walked since the mid-1960s for a variety of purposes including dog walking and short cuts to school and leisure centre.
In all cases, walkers claim they were never challenged nor stopped from using the paths until last year when fencing was erected across the paths at the boundary of the land owned by Wainhomes.
Some of the land was farmed, but walkers were never challenged by the farmer.
But Wainhomes claim use of the paths could not have started earlier than 1993.
Members of the borough council’s traffic committee will be asked to add the paths to the official rights-of-way map at their meeting on Tuesday, November 18
COUNCILLORS are being recommended to add a number of footpaths to
Warrington's definitive rights-of-way map, following an application
from a local resident.
Councillors urged to approve new paths
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