Government plans countryside Bill

14 April 1999

Government plans countryside Bill

THE government is set to introduce a wide-ranging Bill on the countryside in the Queens Speech this autumn.

The Bill, which would give extra protection to wildlife habitats, would also implement government plans to give ramblers a statutory right to roam.

• Countryside Bill due in autumn, FWi, yesterday (13 April, 1999)
  

• Financial Times 14/04/99 page 8 (News Digest)