Obviously, I can't be Sarah Slade as I have no idea who she is.
Why is your tongue hanging out, she would no doubt be on here cheering you on, because the deeper meanings in many of my posts, which are there for others to find out so that I might get some greater understanding myself, are being obscured by a one-way argument?
Sarah Slade is the professional adviser on access matters for the CLA, she is both a lawyer and landowner and took over the post around 2010. Around this time a lot of de facto paths and popular access areas not recognised by the definitive map got closed or restricted. I was on a LAF at the time and had also got access to many inner CLA publications.
I had discovered a few articles on access written by her predecessor. A near admission to knowledge of the Corruption of the Definitive Map kept cropping up in his article and after much thought, the penny has dropped that he was probably from a land agent background. During a LAF meeting where some of the lost de facto access was been justified by an active CLA member, I muttered under my breath, "Right out of the gospel according to Sarah Slade". I was sitting next to a British Horse Society office holder, he whispered to me, "How right you are, now she is really anti-access, I sit on the Stepping Forward committee and other national bodies with her".
Around 2011 Harry Cotterell was vice-chairman of the CLA and I had a chance to read the Monthly Land & Business, he wrote words to the effect, "if we are to reach an understanding with the user groups we are going to have to give more access than we can take away". I recognised them as verbatim from the earlier article and advice given out by the previous access expert. I won't go into the reasons why I think that a land agent might have a corporate guilty conscience on behalf of the CLA, to some it might be obvious and I have tried to draw attention to it in many different instances.
When the 2012 access policy came out under the banner headline of 'A Common Sense Approach' such sentiment had disappeared and all traces vanished from other articles on the subject (Harry Cotterrell was then President of the CLA). More impending doom was spread about the harmful effects of access legally, cost of third party insurance and of course the hardy perennial of criminal damage, etc.
You ought to lookup Garnon's (his family estate)on a map, it certainly not in an area that is pro access. about 10 west of Hereford and just north of Bridge Solars on the River Wye. Can you find historic and current access problems there? HC obviously thinks there are none that he should have advised his members about.