Public Rights of Way (PRoW)
Screen
These are the questions we answer during the Screen stage.
Answering them wil help us learn more about the Public Rights of Way (PRoW) consideration, determine if a data standard is required and whether we know enough to move on to the next stage.
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What is the 'Public Rights of Way (PRoW)' consideration?
A public right of way (PRoW) is a legal right for the public to pass along a specific route across land, even if that land is privately owned. There are four categories of PROWs, each with different types of permitted transportation: Footpaths; Bridleways; Restricted byways and Byways open to all traffic (BOAT).
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Is there legislation that defines 'Public Rights of Way (PRoW)'?
No
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Who, in law, is responsible for the planning consideration or makes decisions about 'Public Rights of Way (PRoW)'?
- Local highways authority
- Local planning authorities
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Which organisations do we think should publish the data?
- Local authorities
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Is the Public Rights of Way (PRoW) a trigger?
No
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Is the Public Rights of Way (PRoW) something to consult during plan making?
No
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Is there any Public Rights of Way (PRoW) data already available?
Yes
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What Public Rights of Way (PRoW) data is currently available?
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Item 1
- name
- Details about rights of way
- fields
- Council;Name;Type;Distance;First GridRef;Last GridRef;First Lat,Lon;Last Lat,Lon
- licence
- Open Licence - Rights of way data for the 138 authorities that are listed in the table below have been released with an open licence.
- coverage
- Partial
- publisher
- rowmaps
- attribution
- "The authority's data contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2024." - Used on the dataset webpage.
- metadata_url
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Do we think the data should come from a single source?
No - the data that is available above is a cumulation of multiple LPAs who have released their data under an open licence.
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Will a data standard be required?
Yes