§ Baroness Byfordasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Whitty on 21 October (WA 173), whether errors corrected by the Countryside Agency in its provisional or conclusive maps will provide sufficient reason to allow the correction of definitive maps drawn up by the local authorities; and whether the Government have any plans to issue guidelines on that subject. [HL5459]
§ Lord WhittyThe Countryside Agency's maps do not show the same information as local authorities' definitive maps. The Countryside Agency's maps show open country (mountain, moor, heath and down) and registered common land. Definitive maps show linear rights of way such as footpaths and bridleways. Changes to the Countryside Agency's maps will therefore not have implications for definitive maps.
We do not plan to issue guidance specifically on this point but will make the purpose of the maps clear in general information produced on rights of access.