HC Deb 20 July 2001 vol 372 c618W
Paddy Tipping

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will list the local authorities that have made representations to maintain the blanket closure of the rights of way network. [3175]

Alun Michael

[holding answer 9 July 2001]: My Department received applications for full or partial exemption from revocation from the following local authorities:

  • Bedfordshire county council
  • Blackburn with Darwen borough council
  • Bradford metropolitan district council
  • Cumbria county council1
  • Devon county council1
  • Durham county council1
  • East Riding of Yorkshire council
  • Gloucestershire county council1
  • Hartlepool borough council
  • Herefordshire council1
  • Kent county council
  • Lancashire county council1
  • Leeds city council
  • Lincolnshire county council
  • Sheffield city council
  • Somerset county council1

1 My Department's officials wrote to local authorities on 13 July approving applications from those authorities.

We also received a letter from North Yorkshire county council seeking exemption from revocation but closures in that county were imposed under different powers from those which are being revoked.

We also received letters from Cheshire county council, Newcastle-under-Lyme borough council and Allerdale borough council.