Public to lose access to paths after landowner lobbying

I'm infuriated by this u-turn. The Ramblers spent large amounts of our time charting and preparing these cases, then once it became clear that we were going to fight tooth-and-nail, the time limit was abolished.

Now everything has spun down, they re-instate it! I half expected them to keep the original deadline, but at least there is a little more time.

That really sucks. I live in Scotland where we have the right to roam so it's a shame to see access rights in England being so heavily curtailed

I'm not shocked but I am quite peeved. Naturally the government would side with landowners - the rest of us are too poor. Additionally, England has quite the history of gating off spaces (parks and the like) for the upper classes and restricting access for the common people.

So it's not shocking. But irksome nonetheless.

Seems to me to be part of a wider-scale agenda to separate the rich and the poor in this country. Where I live development is concentrated in the town, cramming it full of more and more housing and multiple-occupied households. More and more people. Around us - where the rural rich live - it's almost undeveloped and, whenever a plan to build in the country is proposed it's shut down quite quickly (by what seem to be lobby groups).

Now the rural rich, sitting in their country houses, don't even want us commoners accessing the land. What we need in this country is a little land redistribution and more of the countryside taken into national ownership.