This privacy notice tells you what information the Rights of Way and Access service collects and uses, and your rights regarding your information.
The categories of this information that we collect, process and hold include:
- name, address, email and telephone contact details
- application details
- consultation responses, objections or representations
- information that you provide about your use of a particular public right of way or area of land
Why we collect and use this information
London Borough of Bromley (LBB) stores and uses your personal data to:
- process applications made under section 53B(1) to (4) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
- process Definitive Map Modification Orders and Public Path Orders
- process Highways Act 1980 section 31(6) deposits
- respond to reports, enquiries or complaints and carry out maintenance and protection duties on public rights of way
- enable communication with user groups/landowners/contractors/volunteers
The lawful basis on which we use this information
We collect and use this information because we are carrying out ‘public tasks’ or providing services set out in law. The relevant legislation includes:
- Highways Act 1980
- Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981
- The Public Rights of Way (Register of Applications under section 53(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981) (England) Regulations 2005
- Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
- Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984
- other Acts and Regulations
Collecting this information
Some of the information you provide to us is mandatory, some of it is provided to us on a voluntary basis. In order to comply with data protection legislation, we will inform you whether you are required to provide certain information to us or if you have a choice in this.
Storing this information
For evidential purposes under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, all relevant correspondence that is a matter of public record and any personal data within it will be kept indefinitely.
What we use this information for and who we share it with
If you provide user evidence or a consultation response relating to a definitive map modification order, a public path order or a traffic regulation order, your name and evidence/comments will be included in a report to the council’s No it’s the Public Rights of Way Sub Committee who determine whether an order should be made. The application, associated evidence and decision will be published on the council's Committee Agendas, Reports and Minutes website.
We have a statutory duty to publish online registers of applications under section 53(5) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 applications for definitive map modification orders, with links to the documents, on Bromley's rights of way. These documents are in the public domain. We remove (redact) signatures from the online copies but not the other personal data, and anyone has the right to ask to view the original unredacted documents.
If you submit a formal application for a definitive map modification order and you believe that publishing your personal details as the applicant would cause you substantial damage or distress, you may request that your personal details are removed from the register.
Bromley archives holds information relating to the preparation and review of the definitive map and statement which will be shared with researchers investigating potential definitive map modification order applications under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
If you apply for a temporary closure of a public right of way your name and contact details will normally appear on the site notice as the applicant and source of further information. If you wish you may ask us to omit your personal contact details from the site notice.
If you apply to erect a structure (for example, a gate or a stile) on a public right of way under Highways Act 1980 section 147, your application form containing your personal contact details will be held on our records for internal use.
We do not use your data for commercial or marketing purposes.
Why we share this information
To enable us to carry out our statutory duties and other services relating to public rights of way and access.
Requesting access to your personal data
Under data protection legislation, individuals have the right to request access to information about them that we hold. To make a request for your personal information contact data.protection@bromley.gov.uk.
You also have the right to:
- object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
- in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed, and
- claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations
If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, we request that you raise your concern with us in the first instance. Alternatively, you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Further information
You can read the council’s corporate privacy notice.
Contact the Highway Planning Team by emailing Highway.Planning@bromley.gov.uk for further information about this privacy notice.