A Law for one...
Gary Lawes Press Officer, Green Lane Association | 16.11.2005 12:40
Section 62 of the NERC bill is a hard hitting piece of legislation aimed at removing “nuisance” motorists from the countryside. The bill in its present form will remove vehicular rights from some 2000 miles of minor roads.
A law for one…………………
Section 62 of the NERC bill currently passing through parliament, runs under the guise of clarifying the status of certain public rights of way, it is a hard hitting piece of legislation aimed at removing “nuisance” motorists from the countryside. The bill in its present form will remove vehicular rights from some 2000 miles of minor roads.
Many of us have been mystified by the words of ministers seemingly ignorant of the law, the facts and their own research whilst propagating streams of misinformation and bare faced lies.
It can be no coincidence that many ministers are substantial land owners who stand to profit most from this “adjustment” to public rights of way. The bill represents a first for English and Welsh law, never before has a government sought to remove public rights of way, it also undermines a fundamental cornerstone of our public rights – once a road always a road.
Thousands of properties across the country will have vehicular access rights removed, permanently and with no provision for appeal. Any property accessed from a minor road, no matter how short that road may be, could be affected.
The owners of properties accessed via an affected road will have no choice but to negotiate, on the open market, for easements from land owners.
Some landowners have already received substantial settlements for private access agreements to properties blighted by the forthcoming legislation that is already making them un-saleable.
So can it be mere coincidence that the people we elect to represent us, could have contrived a law that reduces our public rights of way across their land, and provides a very useful, and substantial revenue stream?
Gary Lawes
Press Officer green Lane Association
www.glass-uk.org
Section 62 of the NERC bill currently passing through parliament, runs under the guise of clarifying the status of certain public rights of way, it is a hard hitting piece of legislation aimed at removing “nuisance” motorists from the countryside. The bill in its present form will remove vehicular rights from some 2000 miles of minor roads.
Many of us have been mystified by the words of ministers seemingly ignorant of the law, the facts and their own research whilst propagating streams of misinformation and bare faced lies.
It can be no coincidence that many ministers are substantial land owners who stand to profit most from this “adjustment” to public rights of way. The bill represents a first for English and Welsh law, never before has a government sought to remove public rights of way, it also undermines a fundamental cornerstone of our public rights – once a road always a road.
Thousands of properties across the country will have vehicular access rights removed, permanently and with no provision for appeal. Any property accessed from a minor road, no matter how short that road may be, could be affected.
The owners of properties accessed via an affected road will have no choice but to negotiate, on the open market, for easements from land owners.
Some landowners have already received substantial settlements for private access agreements to properties blighted by the forthcoming legislation that is already making them un-saleable.
So can it be mere coincidence that the people we elect to represent us, could have contrived a law that reduces our public rights of way across their land, and provides a very useful, and substantial revenue stream?
Gary Lawes
Press Officer green Lane Association
www.glass-uk.org
Gary Lawes Press Officer, Green Lane Association
Homepage:
http://www.glass-uk.org
Comments
Hide the following 4 comments
A little one-sided
16.11.2005 14:55
That's the same government that has just infuriated landowners by introducing a right to roam across the countryside, thus opening up millions of acres of 'private' land to the public for the first time in centuries...
Plus the main thrust of this bill is to stop City-dwelling pillocks taking their Chelsea tractors down bridleways and churning up the chilterns every other weekend for the hell of it.
FTB
here come the trolls
16.11.2005 16:41
I guess the New Reichers haven't figured out a good way to spin their master's use of chemical weapons in Fallujah yet, and so have to troll stuff like this instead.
Free movement = free society. Restricted movement = police state. Now guess which way Blair and his New Reich party are taking us.
twilight
I'm not making excuses, I'm stating facts.
16.11.2005 17:57
"GLASS (Green Lane Association) is a national rights of way user group that represents the interests of motor car users on unsurfaced minor highways or, Green Lanes, in England and Wales. The majority of our members use four wheel drive vehicles in the countryside."
I think restricting the use of private motor vehicles is generally a good thing, don't you? Or are pedestrianising the high street and turning roads into bus and cycle lanes acts of state repression too?
FTB
A bit of clarification
17.11.2005 11:23
It is NOT restricting 4x4 drivers ability to drive in the countryside. They can still drive on byways.
An amendment to the legislation has already been tabled to remove the 'landowners losing the value of their homes' issue.
Christ, when the pro-motoring lobby uses Indymedia to put out their press releases, you have to wonder what the world is coming to...
R