Controversy - countryside access
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 10:01 am
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68278444
Victoria Vyvyan, the CLA's president, said:
Bizarrely, this inaccessibility might actually protect some species. But that is most certainly what the CLA has in mind.
I am too old and immobile these days to be able to roam, so this doesn't affect me personally. However, it is difficult to sympathise with the Country Land and Business Association who seems so out of touch with the real world of the 21st century.
Jack
This comment by the Country Land and Business Association says a great deal:"right to roam" campaigners say that, by combining Natural England's CRoW Act mapping with local authority public rights of way maps, they have identified hundreds of fragmented areas of open country which do not have footpaths connected to them or are not close to roads.
Victoria Vyvyan, the CLA's president, said:
Eh, yes. Of course, rare butterflies, birds, etc can easily be found where the CLA suggests you go."Nobody is forced to trespass. It is a choice and millions of acres of land are publicly accessible without the need to do so."
Bizarrely, this inaccessibility might actually protect some species. But that is most certainly what the CLA has in mind.
I am too old and immobile these days to be able to roam, so this doesn't affect me personally. However, it is difficult to sympathise with the Country Land and Business Association who seems so out of touch with the real world of the 21st century.
Jack