Wehay! \o/
the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) said removing the deadline would mean claims would “continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come”
My heart bleeds for the poor businesses having to be patient while councils take the time to properly record human beings’ ancient rights to walk over land.
“continue to disrupt many farm businesses for years to come”
Or they could you know.
Assume the right of way exists and plan to work within it.
If the potential of it being a righr of way is effecting them in any way. Then they must know where ir is being debated.
If they are choosing to fight it. The doubt is entirly their creation.
I wish the NFU would decide what the hell their priorities are and then stick to them for 5 minutes. They seem to swing wildly from issue to issue, without ever really improving things for farmers.
I grew up on a farm and we had some tracks through our fields, it was a total non issue as long as people kept dogs on leads. One time we had a helicopter land in one of our fields and even that wasn’t a problem, everything sprung back up after a while. Although immediately afterwards everything did kind of look like a mini nuke had gone off.
Won’t somebody think of all the wealthy landowners, having to put up with being treated like ordinary people?
I was thinking more about the whole monarchy thing, going back to … forever?
You guys should get a right of way law.
We don’t have public paths like that because you are allowed to walk wherever you want except very close to people’s homes and in people’s gardens.
You are even allowed to walk across grazing fields actively being roamed by farm animals. You obviously have to close the gate behind you though.
While I’ve been updating open street map I’ve also taken the time to report right off way violations via my councils web portal. The problem is most of the paths around here are permissive national park paths and there is no canonical catalog available digitally to cross check against. I don’t know if they should also be registered as a right of way?
If in doubt, I’d say register them. It’ll be investigated then and them added to the digital register they’re creating if it is supposed to be a public path, and if not, at least someone notified them to look into it. If nobody tells them then it’s at risk of losing public access.
