24 October 2015

The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, has urged the Welsh Government to require that landowners and occupiers who receive agri-environment funding keep the public paths on their land in good order.   The society was responding to the government’s consultation on Common Agricultural Policy reform and cross-compliance.     Says Kate Ashbrook the…

The Open Spaces Society, Britain’s oldest national conservation body, is deeply concerned that the Welsh Government has attacked the public-path network, in its consultation paper ‘Improving opportunities to access the outdoors for responsible recreation’.  The society considers that Welsh Government appears to dismiss the historic value of the public-path network, and its contribution to Welsh…