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CLA will Tell Minister that Coastal Corridor is Costly and Contentious Current Natural England proposals for providing a route for walkers all the way round the English coast will trample over the rights of private property owners and have a potentially disastrous impact on some coastal based businesses.
That's the no-nonsense message Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, President of the CLA, the rural economy experts, will be taking to the minister responsible for coastal access, Jonathan Shaw, next week.The CLA is concerned that the current favourite proposal is to provide an access corridor around the whole coast – but the Association does not believe that the true consequences of this have been fully understood. "Natural England is proposing to take private land – not just farmland, but any land – without compensation. That flies in the face of every other similar aspect of English law and amounts, in other words, to the nationalisation of land. We have a very serious problem with this idea of compulsory acquisition of rights without compensation - we say it is simply not acceptable to take a privately owned asset for the public good without paying for it." The CLA President said that he would tell the minister that landowners were not trying to prevent people visiting the coast. CLA members, he said, understood the importance of coastal access in both economic and social terms, but the Association's view has always been that where there are difficulties, these should be resolved at a local level using local solutions. "Assuming the current proposals come in on budget, coastal property owners will have provided this access free, but delivery will still cost the tax payer £50million and then leave local authorities with the bill for maintaining it. We say that the need or demand for new legislation simply does not exist – there is already plenty of law available to provide access where there currently is none." The CLA will also highlight the potential problems for coastal farms where stocking and cropping regimes may have to be altered and for many coastal businesses which will also have to be reorganised in order accommodate these proposals. "We can provide clear examples of the difficulties this proposal will cause coastal businesses and of the solutions private landowners can offer. We hope to persuade the minister that there genuinely is a better ways to approach this issue," he said. |
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More articles and documents [News Archive] [22 July 2008] AC02-08 Coastal Access (For England only) Part 9 Draft Marine Bill - EFRA Recommendations [Guidance notes] [22 July 2008] Proposed regulations for appeals against works notices, exclusions or restrictions of access, and dedication of land [Consultation response archive] [20 June 2011] |
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.
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