Access to open countryside: Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
Briefing and guidance
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You can view the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, in the form in which it received Royal Assent, and the Explanatory Notes to the Act, on Her Majesty's Stationery Office website.
For general briefing about the introduction of the new right of access see the :
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Countryside Agency's media briefing [PDF] (29 KB) - 27 October 2005
Below is a comprehensive list of guidance documents and notes covering various aspects of Part I of the Act; issued by Defra, the Countryside Agency (CA) and the Planning Inspectorate (PINS).
Access authorities’ functions:
- Guidance letter [PDF] (34 KB)
- Circular [PDF] (161 KB)
- Model section 35 agreement [PDF] (20 KB)
Local access forums:
- Secretary of State's guidance to local access forums [PDF] (32 KB)
- Minister of State's letter to local access forum members [PDF] (588 KB)
- Secretary of State's revised guidance on local access forums [PDF] (331 KB)
- Letter about Rights of Way Improvement Plans (ROWIPs) [PDF] (56 KB)
Mapping:
- General guidance circular to local authorities on mapping [PDF] (74 KB)
- Copying maps of open country and registered common land [PDF] (25 KB)
- Mapping existing access land
- Conclusive maps and excepted land
- Guidelines for recognising excepted land [PDF] (14 KB)
Restrictions and exclusions:
- Guidance note on general restrictions [PDF] (21 KB)
- Guidance for landowners on procedures for removing or relaxing a general restriction on the right of access introduced by CROW [PDF] (39 KB)
- Guidance for relevant authorities on giving a direction under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2 of CROW [PDF] (76 KB)
- Direction removing or relaxing general restrictions in Schedule 2 of CROW [PDF] (19 KB)
- Restrictions and exclusions fact sheet [PDF] (14 KB)
- CA Discretionary ‘28 day’ restrictions or discretionary dog exclusions:
- CA Restriction directions:
- CA Relevant authority guidance
Access management:
- Guidance on means of access [PDF] (55KB)
- CA Land Managers’ Guidance Pack:
- Introduction
- Positive access management - Part 1
- Positive access management - Part 2
- Public liability
- Restricting access
- Fire prevention restrictions
- Signs on access land
- CA Managing public access - guidance for land managers
- CA Signs on access land - guidance for access authorities
- CA Access Management Grant Scheme (AMGS) revised guidance
- Guidance on the relationship between the right of public access under Part I of the CROW Act, and any prohibitions on access in other legislation [PDF] (27 KB)
- How the new right of access affects existing customary or tolerated (de facto) access
- Countryside Code
Appeals:
- Guidance on appeals [PDF] (1034 KB) revised May 2006
- PINS Restrictions appeals:
- PINS Notice appeals:
Guidance on legislation affecting public places:
- Guidance for land managers [PDF] (32 KB)
- Guidance for police [PDF] (49 KB)
- Guidance for local authorities [PDF] (52 KB)
Dedication:
- Guidance
- Model dedication instrument [PDF] (223 KB)
- Form to register a dedication as a local land charge [PDF] (11 KB)
- Letter to local authorities on registering a dedication as a land charge [PDF] (25 KB)
Fire:
- Natural England consultation on fire restrictions [PDF] (92 KB)
- Fire Severity Index
- Fire Prevention Restrictions
- Northumberland Fire Sign - May 2008 [PDF] (917 KB)
- Met Office - May 2007
- Peak District fire sign
- South Pennines Wildfire watch [PDF] (810 KB)
- Cumbria County Council Fire Plan Form [PDF] (99 KB)
- Cumbria County Council Fire Plan Guidance [PDF] (165 KB)
- Image of Quantocks back water spraying unit [PDF] (2.2 MB)
- Image of Quantocks extra long light-weight fire beater [PDF] (2.19 MB)
- Map showing soil moisture monitoring sites on national nature reserves in England and Wales [PDF] (373 KB)
Page last modified:
07 August 2008
Page Published: 17 September 2004