Product Description

The exercise of public rights of way has long been a source of conflict and conforntation between users, landowners and local authorities. This is largely due to the complexity of the law of highways which governs such rights. In the first part of "Public Rights of Way", Angela Sydenham clarifies the law. She explains how such rights of way are created and can be lost, how their existence can be ascertained and the nature of the obligations to maintain and manage them. The second part of the book explains how the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 has introduced new rights of access to open land, the nature and extent of such rights and the obligations consequent upon them. The book sets out all the relevant provisions of the Highways Act 1980 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in their amended form, and Parts I and II of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. "Public Rights of Way" brings together all the relevant law and suggests solutions to some of the practical problems experienced by landowners and farmers in relation to rights of way, offering the reader a comprehensive text, which aims to supply the definitive answer to all their questions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2039207 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

About the Author
Consultant, Birketls, Solicitors. Former Chief Legal Adviser to the Country Landowners Association and author of Farm Business Tenancies and Trusts of Land, both published by Jordans.

Customer Reviews

A fair summary of Rights of way law and the new CROW Act.
Angela Sydenham was formerly the chief legal adviser to the Country Landowners Association (now the Country Land and Business Association), so the perspective of this book is slightly different to that in the Ramblers Association/Open Spaces Society's Blue Book. However it offers a comprehensive study of the legal background to access and covers the new CROW Act in particular depth - not an easy subject, since regulations regarding the CROW Act have been published in a steady flow more or less since the Act gained Royal Assent. Although the thrust of the book is more about the law and its provisions, rather than how it is used, I am confident this makes a valuable addition to the library of allthose affected by public rights of way - users, landowners and farmers.