BWW can you be more specific? This sounds really interesting and I dont know the half of the half of it. Maybe this forum could play a role in putting pressure on for access rights?
Let me make this clear, I am not a member of a walking organisation and never have been, whilst I was on the RA forum, it went into meltdown and wiped out much of the posts I had developed at the time it went down.
My corruption of the DM topic was my own work and the result of my own thinking, every RoW dept. and personnel member I have talked to will suggest that the DM has been corrupted from the outset, and it is the fundamental tool of our legal access to the countryside.
Those RoW's that do exist are the only negotiating asset that the ordinary member of public have to ensure that they can access their countryside, the legacy of the past will be wiped out in 2026, and no provision has been put into place to ensure that the access network to our countryside can be expanded. Hereditary landowners still hold control over large swathes of land that are not accessible.
Every kilometer Square that is devoid of a right of way condemns a child in that area of the right to walk into their countryside.
The RA has thrown away the key and walked out on us all.