From: jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu 
  
 On 2025-08-01, Martin Brown <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote: 
 > On 31/07/2025 18:34, Roland Perry wrote: 
 >> In message , at 13:36:35 on Thu, 31 
 >> Jul 2025, Kempshott  remarked: 
 >>> Does a Local Authority have a statutory duty to keep its online 
 >>> definitive map up to date? 
 >>> 
 >>> Ours still says "last update March 2021" and there have been many 
 >>> Modification Orders passed since then. 
 >> 
 >> I bet there's a lot of pre-2021 changes not on it either. I've had cause 
 >> to look at these maps in the past, and they are often woefully out of 
 date. 
 > 
 > It is pot luck what is and what is not included on the definitive maps. 
 > 
 > I suspect form the name that they are supposed to be maintained but if 
 > you know an area well it isn't hard to find recent changes that are 
 > missing. Updating them doesn't seem to be a high priority. 
  
 There's either two possibilities, and I think the answer could be either 
 depending on which local authority it is. 
  
 Either it isn't "the Definitive Map" at all, it's just an online map, 
 in which case I would expect there's no statutory duty to update it. 
 It might claim to reflect information from the Definitive Map, but 
 that doesn't make it definitive itself. 
  
 Or, it is "the Definitive Map", in which case it is, er, definitive. 
 If it shows a right of way exists, then it does, and if it doesn't, 
 it doesn't. If they haven't updated it to show rights of way that 
 the council intended to create, then they haven't created them. 
  
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