We have green space a short walk from the front door and more if we walk half a mile, this area is furnished with a Right of Way that could lead to a village a 10 mile drive away. It has been of great interest to follow the tracks that have developed around the field margins the Right of Way since March. User demand (as highlighted as a reason for the development of access by the Joint Users conference a few years ago is patently evident). This was in the face of Privacy Notices in plentiful supply. We rewalked a few of these paths a couple of days ago and found a number of new Privacy Notices, newly erected and well within the geography of Private Land. This walk did us both a lot of good helping to protect us from the stir-crazy symptoms that might lead to emotional problems.
Was I to heed these, newly erected privacy notices and drive perhaps 5 miles to a layby I know, I might be considered too far out and be fined. Can I sue the landowner for the fine? In this state of emergency are his privacy notices an unnecessary public nuisance, the evidence of the footfall from March gives clear signs of the public need and those using them are taking reasonable precautions to exercise more safely by extending the limited public space provided by a single line of Right of Way.