Bishops Waltham, Hampshire – Definitive Map Modification Order

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

HIGHWAYS ACT 1980

THE HAMPSHIRE (CITY OF WINCHESTER NO.75)

(PARISH OF BISHOPS WALTHAM) PUBLIC PATH CREATION AND

DEFINITIVE MAP MODIFICATION ORDER 2025

The above order, made on 25 April 2025, under section 26 of the Highways Act 1980, will create a public footpath commencing at a junction with Bishops Waltham Footpath 36 and proceeding southwards to a junction with Bishops Waltham Footpath 37, continuing in a southerly direction to Claylands Nature Reserve, then in a south-easterly then southerly direction through the reserve to a junction with Montague Road, as described in the Schedule to the order.

This order is also made under section 53A(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the 1981 Act”) because it appears to the authority that the Hampshire Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way (dated 15th December 2007) require modification in consequence of the occurrence of an event specified in section 53(a)(i) of the 1981 Act, namely, the creation (as authorised by this order) of a highway required to be shown in the map and statement.

A copy of the Order and the Order map have been placed and may be seen free of charge at the offices of Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester, SO23 8UD, and at the offices of Winchester City Council, City Offices, Colebrook Street, Winchester, SO23 9LJ at all reasonable hours; and online at www.hants.gov.uk/publicnotices. Copies of the Order and the map can be provided on request.

Any representations about or objections to the Order may be sent in writing to the Head of Countryside Access, Universal Services, Hampshire County Council, The Castle, Winchester, SO23 8UD, or via email to row.notices@hants.gov.uk quoting reference:- PPO 5256, no later than 13 June 2025. Please state the grounds on which they are made.

The personal data you provide in any representation will be treated in accordance with Data Protection Legislation, and may be published in a decision report, be disclosed to other interested parties, including the landowner (or their representatives). It may also be made public if the matter is referred to the Planning Inspectorate. Your data will be retained for a maximum period of 3 years from the date that the application is resolved. The legal basis for our use of this information is the compliance with a legal obligation – Highways Act 1980.

You have some legal rights in respect of the personal information we collect from you. Please see our website Data Protection page for further details (www.hants.gov.uk/dataprotection). You can contact the County Council’s Data Protection Officer at data.protection@hants.gov.uk. If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

If no such representations or objections are duly made, or if any so made are withdrawn, Hampshire County Council may confirm the Order as an unopposed order. If the Order is sent to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for confirmation any representations and objections which have not been withdrawn will be sent with the Order.

Persons wishing to make representations or objections are advised that in the Order making process, representations or objections may become publicly available and therefore the names and addresses of those persons making representations or objections would also be made publicly available.

Dated this 16th day of May 2025

PATRICK BLOGG, Director of Universal Services, The Castle, Winchester, SO23 8UD