Survey on Public Access to the English Countryside

[Mr. Green]

Done it mate , fuk off my land with your flea ridden dogs

Hahahahaha, thank you very much bobk, top man.

 

[Dave645]

Thanks ever so much for taking the time to do the survey Princess Pooper. I realise my survey has its limitations and of course it is always going to be difficult to cover all the bases without the survey becoming too long. No one likes a long survey and people will be less likely to respond to it, so I had to cut some questions somewhere. This was however my reasoning for including the comments section, which has been very useful for getting a broader set of views and opinions, and I must say around 70% of the comments in this field have mentioned dogs as a problem. It seems the subject of dogs would make a great research paper all of its own, and I wonder if increased right to roam for humans only (excluding dogs) would gain a wider base of support.

I also take on board your comments that agriculture and conservation are not mutually exclusive and in fact the subject of conservation agriculture is one of great interest to me personally. This was an oversight on my part, but thanks for highlighting it for me.

You cannot get dog owners to exclude dogs, they see a field and say well it’s just a field, for the 90%that may follow the rules you will always get the 10% that don’t, if they see other dogs on there, the rest say well they do it so it must be ok, and it’s not just dogs it’s rubbish.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

As far as rights of way are concerned, we are where we are, however, a footpath should be for people on foot, not a dog walking path. It should be made far simpler to alter a route to allow for modern agriculture (for example not through the middle of a field, but rather round the edge and certainly not through the middle of a farm yard).