A deadline for registering historic rights of way is to be scrapped after a warning that the looming cutoff date could result in the loss of thousands of miles of footpaths.
The last government set a deadline of 2031 for all rights of way in England to be added to an official map, after abandoning a previous commitment to scrap the policy.
Once recorded as rights of way and added to the definitive map, paths are protected under the law for people to use.
@GreyShuck
Brilliant! Very good news. A friend overheard one wealthy landowner say: ‘we’ve got to get rid of these ramblers’. They will have to think again. Maybe it’s time for the padlocks to come off the gates?