Consultancy

Rowtac can provide consultancy services. Consultancy work undertaken by Rowtac or by John Trevelyan as an individual has included:

Definitive maps

• Representing applicants for definitive map modification orders, including parish councils and voluntary organisations at public inquiries
• Representing objectors to modification orders at public inquiries
• Acting as a witness on documentary evidence for a surveying authority

Changes to rights of way

• Acting on behalf of applicants for public path diversion orders under both the Highways Act 1980 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1990
• Representing objectors to public path, school special extinguishment and rail crossing extinguishment orders

Commons

• Providing advice to an applicant for a development consent order on the suitability of the land proposed to be provided as exchange land for common land to be taken for the proposed development

Publications

John Trevelyan wrote articles for the Rights of Way Law Review on the following topics:

• The Equality Act 2010 and rights of way (Section 5, 2011)
• Modifying highways for the disabled (Section 5, 2007)
• Extinction of unrecorded pre-1949 ROWs (review of the report of Natural England's Stakeholder Working Group) (Section 7, 2010)
• Transfer of parts of definitive maps (Section 8, 1998)
• Consolidation of definitive maps (Section 8, 2011)
• Rights of access to information and ROWs (Section 10, 2008)
• Freedom of information and rights of way (Section 10, 2012)

John has written articles for Waymark, journal of the Institute for Public Rights of Way and Access Management, on the Localism Bill and its implications for rights of way (summer 2011) and human rights and rights of way (the Clarkson case in the Isle of Man)(summer 2012)