Agenda item - Application for a Definitive Map Modification Order - Kingsway, Hove

Report of Strategic Director, Resources (copy attached)

RESOLVED

1. That the Committee approves the application for an Order on the basis that the evidence referred to in this report shows that the claimed right of way subsists or can reasonably be alleged to subsist.

44.1   The Committee considered a report of the Strategic Director, Place and Strategic Director Resources concerning an application to make an Order modifying its Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way by adding a public footpath between Kingsway and Wharf Road, Hove.

44.2         Councillor Morgan noted that applications to modify the Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way had been made in 2008 and 2009 and asked why the matter was only being determined now. The Committee were advised that the Council had been in correspondence with parties over this issue, and that the matter was now ready for the Governance Committee to reach a resolution.

44.3   Councillor Littman stated that he was familiar with area, and had always thought that it was public Right of Way.

44.4    RESOLVED -

That the Committee approves the application for an Order on the basis that the evidence referred to in this report shows that the claimed right of way subsists or can reasonably be alleged to subsist.