Ten Statements of Truth supporting fifty years of vehicular access without force, secrecy or permission – a Prescriptive Right of Way under the Forty Year Rule:
Witness 1 – Resident – Cramer Gutter – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 3rd October 2012
Witness 2 – Daughter of the previous owner (KB) – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 15th October 2012
Witness 3 – Widow of the previous owner (KB) – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 15th October 2012
Witness 4 – Former resident of Cramer Gutter and previous owner of the Cramer Gutter field sold to Shropshire Wildlife Trust in 1988–Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 19th February 2014
Witness 5 – Former resident of Cramer Gutter and previous owner of the Cramer Gutter field sold to Shropshire Wildlife Trust in 1988–Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 19th February 2014
Witness 6 – Former resident of Cramer Gutter and relative of the previous owners – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 19th February 2014
Witness 7 – Son of the current owner of the property – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 16th August 2014
Witness 8 – Resident and postman – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 5th September 2015
Witness 9 – Farmer and builder to the late owner (KB) – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 23rd November 2015
Witness 10 – Current owner of the property – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 4th January 2022
Statements from ShropshireWildlife Trust
Witness 1 – Reserves Manager – Statement confirming vehicular use without force, secrecy or permission – 6th March 2008
Witness 2 – Warden, Treasurer/Secretary of the local bridleway group, – Statement confirming deliberate obstruction to legal right of way by Shropshire Wildlife Trust, acknowledgement that the Trust was well aware of vehicles using the route – 30th September 2011
Witness 3 – Former Chief Executive Officer – Statement confirming unrestricted vehicular access, “by water tight legal means, by prescriptive right” – 9th June 2016.
Carl P (Reserves Manager) stipulated witness statements that document vehicular access to the property, the vehicular use must be without force, secrecy or permission for 20 years or more, these statements will reinstate the access, no opinion from Natural England required.
Witness statements and supporting evidence which documents unrestricted vehicular access to the property for over FORTY years, submitted on 27th May 2015 to Colin P (former Chief Executive Officer – Shropshire Wildlife Trust).