Stanmore Crescent/Icknield Road

Modify the definitive map to record the footpath No. LO 75 from the side of 39 and 41 Stanmore Crescent to the side of 35 and 37 Icknield Road

This order is made by Luton Council (“the authority”) under Section 53(2)(b) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (“the Act”) because it appears to the Authority that the DMS for the excluded fully developed area of Luton require modification in consequence of the occurrence of an event specified in section 53(3)(c)(i) of the Act namely:

(c) the discovery by the surveying authority of evidence which (when considered with all other relevant evidence available to them) shows:

(i) that a right of way which is not shown in the map and statement subsists or is reasonably alleged to subsist over land in the area to which the map relates, being a right of way such that the land over which the right subsists is a public path.

The authority hereby order that:

1. For the purposes of this order the relevant date is 31 October 2022
2. The DMS for the former excluded fully developed area of Luton shall be modified as described in part I and part II of the schedule and shown on the map attached to this order
3. This order shall take effect on the date it is confirmed and may be cited as the Luton Council, footpath reference LO75 (39 and 41 Stanmore Crescent to 35 and 37 Icknield Road, Luton) DMS modification order 2023.

Description of path or way to be added

Footpath reference LO75 (39 & 41 Stanmore Crescent to 35 and 37 Icknield Road, Luton)

The length of footpath reference LO75 (39 & 41 Stanmore Crescent to 35 and 37 Icknield Road, Luton) to be added is marked by a black dashed line on the map and extends from the side of 39 and 41 Stanmore Crescent, Luton at ordnance survey map grid reference E506825 N223846 (point A on the order map) travelling in a south easterly direction for approximately 80 metres to a point by the side of 35 & 37 Icknield Road, Luton at ordnance survey grid reference E506881 N223789 (point B on the order map).

The footpath varies in width between 3.0 meters and 2.7metres approximately.

Variation of particulars of path or way

Luton: FP LO75
From: the side of 39 and 41 Stanmore Crescent, Luton
To: the side of 35 and 37 Icknield Road, Luton

Description: the path is a footpath. It starts from the side of 39 and 41 Stanmore Crescent, Luton at ordnance survey map grid reference E506825 N223846 (point A on the order map) travelling in a south easterly direction for approximately 80 metres to a point by the side of 35 and 37 Icknield Road, Luton at ordnance survey grid reference E506881 N223789 (point B on the order map). The footpath varies in width between 3.0 meters and 2.7metres approximately.

Addition to the Council’s Definitive Rights of Way Map and Statement of a footpath leading from 41 Stanmore Crescent to 37 Icknield Road

(Report of the Service Director, Property & Infrastructure)

• 9. Appendix A
• 9. Appendix B
• 9. Appendix C, letters and emails received
• 9. Appendix D, figure 1 (consultation letter)
• 9. Appendix D: figure 2