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Tension between farmers and visitors was heightened during the pandemic as record numbers visited the UK countryside, with infringements ranging from

Decisions and maps and modification notices for rights of way orders.

Landowners have slammed a decision to remove the cut-off date for adding historic unrecorded footpaths in England to the Definitive Map – the legal record

Start date notices, inquiry & hearing notices and rejection letters for rights of way orders within 2020, 2021 and 2022

COUNCILLORS have diverted two footpaths in a village after correcting the original map of public rights of way.

THE closure of a footpath which runs alongside a rifle range in Monmouthshire could be extended.

THE closure of a footpath which runs alongside a rifle range in Monmouthshire could be extended.

PUBLIC rights of way exist all over the country, enabling members of the public to access a particular route at any time, writes Amy Clarkson, of Crombie Wilkinson Solicitors in Malton. Local authorities are required to keep a Definitive Map and Statement, which records the rights of way in their area and if a right of way is included on the Definitive Map, it is conclusive evidence that the right of way exists. However, merely because a right of way is not included on the Definitive Map ...

Footpath closed A RIVERSIDE footpath in Monmouthshire has been closed as a matter of emergency following an increase in the number of walkers straying into a neighbouring firing range. Monmouthshire County Council has recently issued the emergency closure of the Severnside Range footpath, close to the Severn near Caldicot. The closure has been made on health and safety grounds following an increasing number of walkers not keeping to the designated path and walking on top of the sea wall, ...