Decision details

To accept the application and to instruct Legal Services to make the appropriate orders to secure the diversion of Public Footpath Number 39, Bury. The path (shown on attached plan PRW/39/BURY/DC/01) is located at Bradshaw Hill, Bury, to the north of Chesham Road, close to the M66. The land is owned by the applicants and they wish to move the path away from their living accommodation for reasons of security and management of the site. The proposed diversion takes walkers away from the M66 and provides open views to the west. The existing path is 465m in length (running A-B on the plan). The proposed diversion is 440m (B-C). Both routes are unsurfaced, the existing running on grass and through a woodland. The diversion runs across grass, adjacent to woodland.
Preliminary Consultations have been carried out with the prescribed bodies (utility companies and path user groups) and there have been no objections to the proposal.
The diversion meets the criteria of being for the benefit of the landowner and no less commodious for the users of the public right of way.
To facilitate the proper opportunity for consultation, advertisement of the proposals / posting of notices will be postponed until such times that business has returned to normal following the current emergency measures in place to control COVID-19/coronavirus.