Horse rider riding/leading on Public Footpath.

[mo!]

so maybe create a network of pay to use horse hacking routes ? sound like demand exists

The only way I would deal with horsey women is with cash up front. Not sure how you would make your business idea work?

 

[Big Bird]

so maybe create a network of pay to use horse hacking routes ? sound like demand exists

I did that 40 years ago but that was Berkshire, ATM there are very few hackers, most people have their own land around here

 

[Clive]

The only way I would deal with horsey women is with cash up front. Not sure how you would make your business idea work?

cash up front - we have a menage that people hat don't keep horse with us rent use of for £25/hr ........ cash up front

don't see why you couldn't do the same with hacking tracks - annual permit of PAYG ?

 

[Pond digger]

Hi, We have a new person in our village, who has horses and is the only person with horses for many miles around. They had previously been told not ride on the Footpaths as they are not Bridleways. They have ignored the express wishes and says the marks are from other horses, which they are definitely not. They have now said that there is nowhere to ride, the Bridlepath being a 3/4 mile hack away and that they must use them. I feel her issue is probably due to her assumption it is the county and there will lots of hacking and it's easy to just go anywhere, other landowners have said no to hacking as well. What lengths of law can be used, there are may elderly dog walkers and simply not enough room for horse and rider and dog walker to walk or pass safely.

She’s become a trespasser, so you can use any reasonable and necessary means to stop her.

 

[mo!]

cash up front - we have a menage that people hat don't keep horse with us rent use of for £25/hr ........ cash up front

don't see why you couldn't do the same with hacking tracks - annual permit of PAYG ?

How do you police it?

 

[Clive]

How do you police it?

people are generally honest

but you spot check now and again or give keys / combination locks to gates maybe -? i'm sure its possible given thought

 

[mo!]

people are generally honest

but you spot check now and again or give keys / combination locks to gates maybe -? i'm sure its possible given thought

Honesty and horses.

Haha Haha.

 

[tepapa]

How do you police it?

Get them to drive and park trailer/lorry in your yard where the tracks could all start/end. No need for them to use the footpath then and they bring money direct to you rather than trust them to pay up.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Under no circumstances encourage any extra access onto any land you have control over , it’s the thin end of the wedge .

 

[Dry Rot]

Paint a white line across the path. Lots of horses won't cross! I know one owner who grazes a field across the road and she has the devil of a job getting them to cross the white line in the middle!

 

[Coximus]

Shes trespassing - you dont need permission to install a chicane or similar as it is not like a gate - IE a full obstruction but it woudl stop a horse. Make it impossible - its a matter of time before its two people and then they like - horses and honesty are not biologically possible! They will claim they have been riding it for 12 years after two!.

 

[steveR]

Under no circumstances encourage any extra access onto any land you have control over , it’s the thin end of the wedge .

I know of someone who had a permissive bridleway over their land and their neighbour. The agreement has long since expired, but the horse owners still persist in trying to gain access as they consider they still have access rights! Very noticable that there have been lots of new fences gone in to prevent access now

 

[Swagger]

Great idea - thank you, we need to be able to mow still, but a 4ft 6 pole would stop all but the most keen.

Get one of those gates-within-a-gate. Leave the smaller gate unlocked so pedestrians, dogs, etc can get through, but padlock the larger gate. Our RoW Officer provided the gates for us (and I think they installed them as well).

 

[betweenthelines]

Just put up few posts at the entrance as a "baffle" that walkers can negotiate but horses can't.

 

[TripleSix]

It is against the law to ride or lead a horse along a Footpath.

 

[Swagger]

Just put up few posts at the entrance as a "baffle" that walkers can negotiate but horses can't.

But I thought the OP wanted to be able to get machinery in ?

 

[fieldfarmer]

It is against the law to ride or lead a horse along a Footpath.

Not if you own the land that the foot path has a right of way over, you can even drive down or over it.

 

[Brisel]

Or you could just let the lady ride her horse about the locality, can’t really envisage one local being problem.

It's not just one - they will all be doing it soon enough. Then it will become a full bridleway if you let it happen for 20 years.

If you don't mind, you could however make a footpath a permissive bridleway. That way, you can rescind the use by horses & bikes without it becoming an established ROW after 20 years. You'll need to inform the council that you're doing this. It will only pause the 20 year claim by some, not stop it. We've done this on a short stretch of path where we couldn't physically stop the locals doing it to join up 2 stretches of proper footpath.

 

[melted welly]

Get them to drive and park trailer/lorry in your yard where the tracks could all start/end. No need for them to use the footpath then and they bring money direct to you rather than trust them to pay up.

Other than vegan activists “bearing witness” and the caravan fraternity, I can’t think of a worse section of society to purposefully invite into your yard.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

As Clive has said. Cash in on it! Don't be a looser and miss out. I had a 15 mile permissive route for horses in a past life. SR4H (Safer Routes for horses) was the logo in lovely stainless steel, nailed to each gate. Most of it is still going, except those pieces of ground which were sold due to the over-spending of the land-owner. Be a super hero and provide safe parking and somewhere you can load and unload a couple of horses and you'll start to get interest and things will snowball. Or be homophobic or whatever the fear of horseriders is? Equi-phobic?? and sit and shiver and make nothing for your efforts.
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