§ Mr. Andrew F. Bennettasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will list (a) the surveys or reviews of definitive maps of public rights of way in respect of which he has given a direction to the surveying authority under section 55(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, stating in each case whether the direction was to complete or abandon the review and (b) those surveys or reviews of definitive maps of public rights of way in progress on 28 February 1983 in respect of which he has yet to give a direction to the surveying authority, stating in each case when he expects to give that direction.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe present position is as follows:
(a)—Surveys and reviews where a direction has been issued:
Survey to be completed
- Sheffield
Survey to be abandoned
- Barnsley
- Doncaster
- Hull
- Rotherham
Review to be completed
- Cornwall
- Cleveland
- Cumbria
- Durham
- Staffordshire
Review to be abandoned County Councils
- Berkshire
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Hampshire
- Hereford and Worcester (former Herefordshire)
- Kent
- Leicestershire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Somerset
- Suffolk
- West Sussex (former East Sussex)
- West Yorkshire
- Wiltshire
London Borough Sutton
(b) Reviews where a direction has yet to be issued: County Councils
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- Hertfordshire
- Humberside (former East Riding of Yorkshire)
- Northamptonshire
- North Yorkshire (former East Riding of Yorkshire)
- Warwickshire
London Boroughs
- Bexley
- Bromley
- Hillingdon
- Kingston-upon-Thames
- Richmond
For Northamptonshire and Warwickshire the directions will be issued shortly. For the remainder the timing depends on the outcome of the consultations with the respective surveying authorities.