Public Rights of Way and Access to Land

by Angela Sydenham

The exercise of public rights of way has long been a source of conflict and confrontation between users, landowners and local authorities. This is largely due to the complexity of the law of highways which governs such rights. The new edition of this book, written by Angela Sydenham, an authority of unrivalled experience, succeeds in clarifying the arcane, and often archaic, law. By turn she explains how such rights of way are created and can be lost, how their existence can be ascertained and the nature of the obligations to maintain and manage them. The second edition has been updated to take into account recent case-law and regulations made under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and guidance is given on making appeals against including land on provisional maps. The book sets out all the relevant provisions of the Highways Act 1980 and the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 in their amended form, and Parts I and II of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. As such, this work provides detailed advice on the working of the recent legislation and is a vital resource for local authorities and advisers to landowners in the UK.