In reply to The Pylon King:
Some landowners will not be happy, even though the 'threat' of paths appearing on their land was not really that serious in most cases , and there are some measures in the legislative package that will benefit them somewhat.
Local authorities will have mixed feelings - some were looking forward to not having to deal with this sort of application any more!
User groups will be pleased. It would be nice to see measured and reasonable applications being made for useful 'lost' paths from now on now that there's much more time.