[SallyintNorth]

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[Hellybee]

At the end of the day it was for a relatively short space of time, with a diversion in place too. And also we own  the yard and so feel it within our rights to do so, no one had complained and to be honest the welfare of our pregnant ewes comes before any person.  Sorry if that offends.  The other 11 months of the year we have thousands of people coming through our yard be they day trippers wanting to go up on the headland, walkers coming of they're long walk or people just starting on they're journey, or people staying at our campsite  Thank fully this time of year it's pretty quiet.  And we shall do the same next year, without a doubt x


The diversion is a permissive walk already, and I ll say summat else we bend over back wards to accommodate visitors as a rule, and we love people coming through, we are not difficult owners. 

[AndynJ]

Not really bothered about the law side of things - they have no money and resources to do anything other than sending a hollow stern threatening letter if anything at all

QUOTE "costs incurred in returning a ROW to it's original course a chargeable to the landowner"

Any member of the public can challenge your actions, you are liable for all costs incurred in them doing that, land registry have an interest logged against your property if you fail to maintain your obligations the courts can actually take it off you. 

Shame your not in my part of the country "I'd happily show you how it works" 
Not really bothered about the law side of things - they have no money and resources to do anything other than sending a hollow stern threatening letter if anything at all  

Me/I & us all think Britain is excellent with all its laws and rules we stick to all of them all of the time and enjoy knowing where we stand. (no neither of us speed either)

[Hellybee]

It doesn't work like that around here, we aren't bothered by councils or the parks in that respect, and I don't mean that in an arrogant way, but they have bigger fish to fry.  The parks are very much into housing planning. we work very much hand in hand with the Park rangers here, who work very differently to the red tape officers (not a bad bunch mind, barring one or two hehe) we have recently worked with them to re instate an old over grown path, joined up the driveway to it, made some great provisions for public use and park use, we have also been beavering away re instating the old coast guards walk to the lookout tower on our perimeter which will eventually be an extra walk, a permissive one.     


Anyway it s all done now bar a handful that are housed, and normal service shall now resume, and to be honest only a trickle of people eventually came through, some locals who were so accomadating and even got to see walks they didn't know were there.   


There will probably some kind of  walkway throught the yard next year and we ll sort out some kissing gates at top and bottom of yard.