Circulars and guidance
Scroll down for additional circulars and guidance referred to in the supplements to the chapters.
Links and downloads
| Code of Practice - Rights of Access: services to the public, public authority functions, private clubs and premises : Disability Rights Commission, 2006 | link |
| Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 – DETR circular 04/2001 | download |
| Disability Discrimination Act 1995 : guidance issued by the Secretary of State on matters to be taken into account in determining questions relating to the definition of disability : Department for Work and Pensions, 2006 | link |
| Guidance relating to the making of gating orders : Home Office, 2006 | download |
| Part 6 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 and Restricted Byways : A guide for local authorities, enforcement agencies, rights of way users and practitioners : Defra, 5th edition, May 2008 | link |
| Part I of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000: Access to the countryside : Defra circular 02/2004 | download |
| Planning for Open Space, Sport and Recreation : Department for Communities and Local Government, PPG 17, 2002 | link |
| Planning Obligations : Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, circular 05/2005 | link |
| Register of definitive map modification order applications : Guidance for English surveying authorities to accompany Statutory Instrument 2005 No 2461 : Defra, December 2005 | download |
| Rights of way improvement plans : guidance to local highway authorities : Defra, 2002 | download |
| Surveys and maps of public rights of way for the purposes of Part IV of the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 [Commons, Open Spaces and Footpaths Preservation Society] | download |
| Superseded definitive map guidance | download |
Additional circulars and guidance referred to in the supplements
| page | link to circular / guidance | |
| 261 | Authorising structures (gaps, gates & stiles) on rights of way (Defra, October 2010) | download |
| 176 | Combined Orders and the power to include modifications in other orders (Defra, revised edition Ocober 2010) | download |
| 391 | Department for Communities and Local Government Circular 03/2007 : Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) (England) Regulations 2007 | link |
| 297 | Guidance for Local Authorities on Implementing the Biodiversity Duty (Defra, 2007) | download |
| 221 | Guidance for National Park Authorities making Traffic Regulation Orders under section 22BB Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (Defra, 2007) | download |
| 304 | Guidance for Public Authorities on Implementing the Biodiversity Duty (Defra, 2007) | download |
| 122, 226 | Guidance on procedures for considering objections to Definitive Map and Public Path Orders in England (Planning Inspectorate, revised November 2008) | download |
| 206 | Marine licensing guide 4 Harbours Act 1964 guidelines (Marine Management Organisation, 2011) | download |
| 261, 282 | Making stiles and gates easier for those with mobility problems (Defra, 2007) | download |
| 121 | Non Statutory Guidance on the recording of widths on public path, rail crossing and definitive map modification orders (Defra, 2007) | download |
| 194 | Non-statutory advice on new provisions relating to diversions of rights of way for the protection of sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs) (Defra, 2007) | download |
| 56 | Register of Highway Act Declarations, Statements and Maps Guidance for English Local Authorities to accompany Statutory Instrument No 2334 (Defra, 2007). | download |
| see text | Rights of Way Circular (1/09): Guidance for Local Authorities (Defra, revised October 2009) – references on pages 77, 87, 98, 104, 113, 122, 127, 131, 158, 168, 169, 171, 173, 175, 178, 181, 185, 186, 189, 191, 196, 212, 226, 231, 244, 261, 286, 292, 311, 315, 396 | download |
| 261, 282 | Statutory guidance under sections 147 and 147ZA of the Highways Act 1980 relating to the requirement for local authorities to have regard to the needs of people with mobility problems when authorising stiles and gates (Welsh Assembly Government, 2007) | download |
| 196 | The Validation of Planning Applications : guidance for local planning authorities (Department for Communities and Local Government, 2007) | link |