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From: Charlietrf@aol.com
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 17:21:14 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: RUPP Reclass. in Norfolk.

I don't know if this is about the RUPP Reclass. Tim's earlier e-mail was
about, but for what it's worth here's the text of an article on the front
page of the latest issue of the Farmers Guardian (28.3.97):

Leisure use of four-wheel drive vehicles on roads designated as footpaths or
bridleways could be illegal, following a public inquiry in Norfolk.
A decision by the inquiry inspector has banned 4WD vehicles travelling a
route on Halvergate Marshes in East Anglia which has been used by a local 4WD
club for more than 20 years.
The inquiry centred on a bid by club members to reclassify a RUPP (Road Used
as a Public Path) as a BOAT (Byway Open to All Traffic). the inquiry heard
that the club had come to regard the route as a general public vehicular
right of way. The inspector said such use was unlawful.
A spokesman for Birketts solicitors of Ipswich, who raised arguements at the
inquiry, said: "The Road Traffic Act 1988 provides that it is an offence
without permission of the landowner to drive a motor vehicle on a road which
is a footpath or bridleway.
"A RUPP on a definitive map confers the same status as a bridleway unless it
can be proved that greater rights existed at the time of the entry on the
map. In the absence of such evidence, bridleway status only exists and an
offence will be committed if a motor vehicle is driven on the route."

Charlie Morriss.

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