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Right to Roam

Volume 453: debated on Thursday 23 November 2006

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if he will assess the merits of extending the right to roam to riversides. (102666)

The right of pedestrian access to land for open-air recreation has been implemented throughout England and Wales under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. This includes some riverside areas which have been mapped as open country and registered common land.

We have no plans to extend the right of access to riverside areas which are not mapped as open country or registered common land.