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Chapter 9 : Obstructions and other nuisances

Links and downloads referred to in the text of Chapter 9

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254 Cases in which magistrates convicted persons of unlawfully obstructing a path by causing crops to grow on it. download [file BBE10]
271 Cattle and public access in England and Wales : Agriculture Information Sheet No 17EW (Health and Safety Executive, 2006) download
271 Code of Practice for Using Plant Protection Products (Defra Pesticides Safety Directorate, 2005) and see correction notes re rights of way on the website link
271 Cross Compliance Handbook for England (DEFRA, 2006) link
271 Entry Level Stewardship Handbook (Defra, 2005) link
271 Environmental Protection Act 1990: Code of Practice on Litter and Refuse (Defra, 2006) link
271 Higher Level Stewardship Handbook (Defra, 2005) link
271 Managing public access - a guide for farmers and landowners (Countryside Agency, 2005)   download

Supplement to the text of Chapter 9

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244 9.3 Advice formerly in circular 2/1993 is now, for authorities in England, in Defra circular 1/08, chapter 6. download
261 9.8.2  HA 1980 s 147, subsections (2A) and (2B), added by CRWA 2000 s 69, provide that in exercising the power under section 147 to authorise a gate or a stile, an authority must have regard to the needs of persons with mobility problems and empowers the Secretary of State to issue guidance on this.   The provision was brought into force in Wales on 1 April 2007: Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Commencement No.9 and Saving) (Wales) Order 2006. The Welsh Assembly Government has issued statutory guidance to local authorities in Wales. The provision was brought into force in England from 1 October 2007 by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (Commencement No. 14) Order 2006. Defra has issued non-statutory guidance to local authorities in England. 

download the Welsh guidance

link to the English guidance  

link to Welsh order 

link to English order