Consultations, Secondary Legislation and Preparations for Implementation
Following the passing of the Marine and Coastal Access Act a number of public consultations are taking place which will lead to the secondary legislation needed to enable Natural England to start work on the ground.
Natural England is currently holding a public consultation on its Coastal Access Scheme. This is the methodology for implementation and sets out its approach to how the trail will be aligned and how access rights will be managed. The deadline for comments is the 5th February and as usual we ask that any areas or groups who have comments make them via the Walking Environment Team at central office so we can coordinate our response.
Please note this is a very large document that has not been publicly produced in paper form and is only currently a set of PDF downloads from Natural England’s web site.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs consultation on its proposals to amend the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 for coastal land has finished. Thank you to all area officers and others who made comments. It’s likely that these proposals will form the basis of statutory instruments to be debated in parliament some time next February.
We are awaiting details of a third item, the regulations covering landowner appeals, but these will be shorter and hopefully take less time to pass parliament than the first two.
Information Links and Publications Please visit our Claim the Coast Campaign pages for more information.
