Opposing England Coastal Path proposed route

[# Robin]

Hi all, I couldn’t see any threads running on this but it must be affecting a lot of us with coastal farms?

Natural England are working around the country proposing a public access walking route for a nationwide coastal path. From their manner and letter this seems to be obligatory and forces us to provide public access.

In our case it will allow a public right of way across a field, to see 100m of cliff edge, then due to a ravine, swings them inland back through another field and not back to the cliff for a further 1/4mile.

Has anyone any legal expertise on this government legislation please?

Is there successful legal representation to oppose it ?

I’m dreading every tom dick and Harry picinicing in our sheep grazing field with dogs and rubbish in full view of our farmhouse... all I need.

Thanks

 

[Formatted]

The CLA or NFU are probably your best bet for advice.

 

[ajcc]

I farm on coast, have sw coast path running both adjacent and within my boundary NT tenant. NE I do have considerable experience with....snake in grass...chancers....wishful thinkers...A large proportion of what they say and do is wishful thinking, time farmers and landowners wised up... but as an organisation they’re about to metamorphose and reinvent themselves!

 

[farmerm]

Every Tom Dick and Harry already seen to roam and litter where they like..

Seems several long sections have already been completed without landowners getting in the way. I don't know that I fancy your chances of stopping the proposal. Gov are throwing £50million at it and determined to complete by 2020. You can give your objections and offer alternative routes but beyond that you may have few options.

 

[JCMaloney]

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/england...etch#object-to-a-proposed-new-stretch-of-path
You have to object within 8 weeks of the notice it says.
Oppose it on "safety/coastal erosion" grounds?

 

[tullah]

They’ll have it with no compensation. It’s nothing short of theft of your coastal strip

 

[Still Farming]

Get use to it.
They walk around Heritage Coast for Years here?

 

[gone up the hill]

I farm on coast, have sw coast path running both adjacent and within my boundary NT tenant. NE I do have considerable experience with....snake in grass...chancers....wishful thinkers...A large proportion of what they say and do is wishful thinking, time farmers and landowners wised up... but as an organisation they’re about to metamorphose and reinvent themselves!

SW coast path is a massive asset to the Westcountry and opens up the coastline to people that otherwise wouldn't be able to appreciate the amazing coastline with the hidden coves/ beaches etc that we in the SW are lucky to have on our doorstep and walking the coast path you see very little dog mess in bags/ rubbish just chucked down unlike many footpaths across fields in the middle of now where..

 

[# Robin]

Thanks guys, reminded me that many of you have to deal with this already.

I guess it’s me coming to terms with the prospect of opening up to the public when we have no footpaths at the moment. I think I’m stuck in a different mindset!

Good shout on the CLA, called them today. I enjoy a coast walk like anyone else but this particular stretch seems bonkers.

Thanks

 

[MattWG]

You must be on a different stretch of SW coast path to us, within 12 months we had 6 ponies chased over the edge (1 turned up in the local harbour), people pick yo their dog mess then leave the bags on the fences or throw them in the hedge and you only find them when your hedge cutting and people trying to take the most direct route to the coast regardless of what they have to cross, had people walking through ewes lambing and cows calving this year, seems to have got a lot worse in the last 18 months, and it takes about 10 minutes to move 6 miles at the wrong time as nobody seems to know how to reverse either

 

[Al R]

You must be on a different stretch of SW coast path to us, within 12 months we had 6 ponies chased over the edge (1 turned up in the local harbour), people pick yo their dog mess then leave the bags on the fences or throw them in the hedge and you only find them when your hedge cutting and people trying to take the most direct route to the coast regardless of what they have to cross, had people walking through ewes lambing and cows calving this year, seems to have got a lot worse in the last 18 months, and it takes about 10 minutes to move 6 miles at the wrong time as nobody seems to know how to reverse either

10 minutes for 1 mile in average traffic here. 3-4 caravans meet and you really are stuffed!
We have 3 mile of coastal path in Wales, we have very few fields out of 75 that havnt got a path through it and then people still wonder across them. Seals are calving flat out now and there’s been 2 lifeboat shouts in the last week with “baby fallen off a cliff sounds” turns out to be a seal pup. Welcome to the front line.