CLA questions need for coastal access proposals at Select Committee

The CLA will today (Monday, 9 June) give evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Commons Select Committee charged with scrutinising the coastal access provisions within the draft Marine Bill – and will call for a series of changes.

The Country Land & Business Association's concerns include:

The Bill is badly conceived – its main purpose is to deliver coastal access where there is currently none. However legislation to achieve this already exists. The Bill would deliver nothing new, except that part of the cost of path creation would be carried by landowners.

Natural England also wants the right to put coastal access routes through parks and private gardens. The CLA says such an attack on privacy of householders cannot be tolerated.

There will be no right of appeal for landowners and no compensation offered to those affected - however great their loss. This will lead to a low standard of scheme design and little regard for the impact of the scheme on land management.

Without provisions to map both the route and the associated spreading room, there will be uncertainty over where people can walk and the extent of land managers' public liability.

MEDIA CONTACTS:

Oliver Wilson, Communications Director, 020 7460 7936 or 07702 928828, ollie.wilson@cla.org.uk,

Phillippa Coates, Press Officer, 020 7460 7934, phillippa.coates@cla.org.uk

Out of hours duty phone: 020 7201 9511.

NOTES TO EDITORS:

1. The Country Land and Business Association has a 36,000-strong membership.

Contact

Andrew Shirley MRICS
Rural Surveyor

A Chartered Surveyor, Andrew advises CLA members on a range of topics including planning, rights of way and access, compulsory purchase, tenancies, and Network Rail. Previously with Carter Jonas in Hereford andADAS/MAFF, Andrew has been with the CLA for 15 years, covering Shropshire, Staffordshire and Cheshire before becoming national arable adviser and recently, acting regional director in the East Midlands.

T: 01785 337010
andrew.shirley@cla.org.uk

Media Contacts

Ollie Wilson
Director of Communications

T: 020 7460 7936
F: 020 7460 7962
ollie.wilson@cla.org.uk

Lisa O'Brien
National Press Officer

T: 020 7460 7934
lisa.obrien@cla.org.uk

Out of hours: 020 7201 9511

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