Unease over right-to-roam maps


14 December 2001



Unease over right-to-roam maps

By Adrienne Francis

THE Countryside Agencys draft right-to-roam act has drawn renewed discussion in the letters section of The Daily Telegraph.


Sally Hargreaves, a small landowner from Lancashire, claims the agency consciously decided not to inform landowners about some changes.


“The intention is to nationalise the whole country bit-by-bit before the majority of us notice,” she writes.


In another letter, Country Land and Business Association president Edward Greenwell says there is a “growing discontent” among landowners.


“Small paddocks and enclosures of improved grassland should clearly not be mapped,” he writes.


“They offer none of the sense of openness that should characterise open country access land.”


Sir Edward urges all those with an interest in land within areas already mapped to check the draft before a deadline on 11 February.

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