Helen ClaytonMore on the threat to #HistoricPaths
Another massive Tory u-turn!
#HistoricPaths #footpaths #bridleways
https://www.oss.org.uk/environment-minister-breaks-government-pledge-to-save-historic-paths/
Environment minister breaks government pledge to save historic paths
We have condemned the Environment Secretary’s decision to break the government’s undertaking last year to ditch the 2026 deadline for recording lost paths in England. Thérèse Coffey has now decided not to revoke the deadline but to extend it for five years. The deadline means that on 1 January 2031, public rights over thousands of paths, which are public highways but not yet recorded as such, or not yet recorded correctly, will be extinguished: public rights over them will then be lost for ever. Says Kate Ashbrook, our general secretary and a member of the stakeholder working group which has