<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">The current issue with the Park Estate is about pedestrian access. The position with cars has always been clearly stated. Recently Nottingham City Council has started the process of designating public rights of way (the former County Boroughs had <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=929#history">derogation </a>from the original PRoW recording). It all looks pretty complicated, from the minutes of the Nottingham Local Access Forum:<br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">"The Nottingham Park Estate
Ltd has served notice on Nottingham City Council under section 14(2)(a) of the Nottingham Park Estate Act 1990 to restrict public access along the footpath known as Park Road / Lenton Road between the hours of 23.00 hrs and 05.00hrs. This route is also subject to an opposed
modification order published in January 2009 under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Nottingham City Council believes it is a right of way. Debate surrounds which Act of Parliament may take precedence; Nottingham Park Estate Act 1990 or the Highways Act 1980. Most likely this case will need to be resolved at the High Court following the initial decision on the opposed order by the Planning Inspectorate. Agreed that Forum should make formal objection."<br></div><br>More information on Robert Howard's <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.parkviews.org/Parkviews/Footpaths.html">blog</a>.<br><br>Seems I'm not the only one confused by access status here. ;-)<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ian Spencer
<ianmspencer@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk-gb@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wed, 26 May, 2010 17:43:50<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Talk-GB] Private roads that are private for maintenance but are publicly accessible<br></font><br>Jerry Clough - OSM wrote on 26/05/2010 16:21:<br>> An interesting set of points. I've been puzzling over three particular <br>> cases related to this. In each case I'm aware that the tagging is <br>> incomplete:<br>><br><span style="text-decoration: underline;">lots snipped</span><br></div></div>
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