- Summary
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Claimed bridleway from Boswell Drive to Doddington Road
- DMMO number
- DMMO 334
- Intended effect of the application
- Claimed bridleway
- Grid references for start and end of claimed route
- SK95016795 to SK94996784. A map showing the route is attached to the copy of the Application (please see the link at the end of the document).
- Address of property on which claimed route lies
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1a Bramley Court, Lincoln, 114 Doddington Road, Lincoln, 116 Doddington Road, Lincoln, 37 Boswell Drive, Lincoln
- Postcode(s) of address related to claimed route
- LN6 7FD, LN6 7EU, LN6 7HB, LN6 7LD
- Principal cities,towns,villages near claimed route
- Lincoln
- Parish
- Lincoln
- District
- Lincoln City
- Applicant's name
- Julie Parker
- Applicant's address
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5 Eastbrook Road , Lincoln, LN6 7ER
- Date of application
- 29 September 2008
- Council officer
- Senior Definitive Map Officer
- Application number
- DMMO/334/LINCOLN
- Council telephone number
- 01522 782070
- Council email
- countryside_access@lincolnshire.gov.uk
- Date of council's decision
- 28 April 2021
- Outcome and reasons for the decision
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Decision made to make a definitive map modification order (DMMO) to add to the legal record of public rights of way a restricted byway over the route applied for on the grounds that there is sufficient evidence to reasonably allege that restricted byway rights have arisen over the route by statutory dedication over the 20-year term September 1988 – September 2008.
- Details of appeal to the Secretary of State
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N/A
- Date modification order made
- 28 May 2021
- Confirmation,non confirmation (with,without mods)
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Objections were lodged to the making of the Definitive Map Modification Order (DMMO), and the Order was therefore submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for determination on the evidence as to whether it should be confirmed.
Following a public inquiry held in September 2023, the Inspector concluded that the evidence demonstrated the subsistence of public footpath rights only, arising through deemed dedication over the 20‑year period from 1988 to 2008. The Inspector further determined that a width of 1.5 metres was sufficient to allow two pedestrians to pass, rather than the 2‑metre‑wide restricted byway which the Order was originally made for.
The proposed modifications were subject to a four‑week public consultation, carried out by the Planning Inspectorate and ending on 28 March 2024, during which a number of representations and objections were received. These were considered through the written representations procedure, and on 5 March 2026 the Inspector confirmed the Order with modifications to record the route as a public footpath with a width of 1.5 metres.
As a result, the route between the southernmost end of Boswell Drive and Doddington Road is now recorded in the Definitive Map and Statement as Lincoln Public Footpath No. 1188.
- Completed
- Yes
- Documents