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ARCHIVE: Countryside Access: Guidance documents
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.
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)(now Natural England) and the Planning Inspectorate (PINS).
Access authorities’ functions:
- Guidance letter (PDF 34KB)
- Circular (PDF 162KB)
- Model section 35 agreement (PDF 21KB)
Local access forums:
Restrictions and exclusions:
- Guidance note on general restrictions (PDF 72KB)
- Guidance for landowners on procedures for removing or relaxing a general restriction on the right of access introduced by CROW (PDF 40KB)
- Guidance for relevant authorities on giving a direction under paragraph 7(1) of Schedule 2 of CROW (PDF 76KB)
- Direction removing or relaxing general restrictions in Schedule 2 of CROW (PDF 20KB)
- Restrictions and exclusions fact sheet (PDF 30KB)
- CA Discretionary ‘28 day’ restrictions or discretionary dog exclusions:
- CA Restriction directions:
- CA Relevant authority guidance
- Guidance on appeals (PDF 271KB) revised May 2006
- PINS Restrictions appeals:
- PINS Notice appeals:
Access management:
- Guidance on means of access (PDF 55KB)
- De facto and de jure access to the countryside (PDF 51KB)
- CA Land Managers’ Guidance Pack:
- Introduction
- Positive access management - Part 1
- Positive access management - Part 2
- Public liability
- Restricting access
- Fire prevention restrictions
- 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 27KB)
- Countryside Code
Guidance on legislation affecting public places:
- Guidance for land managers (PDF 32KB)
- Guidance for police (PDF 49KB)
- Guidance for local authorities (PDF 52KB)
Dedication:
- Guidance
- Model dedication instrument (PDF 223KB)
- Form to register a dedication as a local land charge (PDF 11KB)
Fire:
- Natural England consultation on fire restrictions (PDF 92KB)
- Fire Severity Index
- Fire Prevention Restrictions
- Northumberland Fire Sign - May 2008 (PDF 917KB)
- Met Office - May 2007 (PDF 19KB)
- Peak District fire sign (PDF 409KB)
- South Pennines Wildfire watch (PDF 810KB)
- Cumbria County Council Fire Plan Form (PDF 99KB)
- Cumbria County Council Fire Plan Guidance (PDF 165KB)
- Image of Quantocks back water spraying unit (PDF 2.2MB)
- Image of Quantocks extra long light-weight fire beater (PDF 2.19MB)
- Map showing soil moisture monitoring sites on national nature reserves in England and Wales (PDF 373KB)
Original Mapping Exercise:
- General guidance circular to local authorities on mapping (PDF 51KB)
- Copying maps of open country and registered common land (PDF 25KB)
- Guidelines for recognising excepted land (PDF 16KB)
- The Access to the Countryside (Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) Regulations 2002 (8 July 2002)
- General guidance circular to local authorities on mapping (26 July 2002) (PDF 51KB)
- The Access to the Countryside (Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 (3 February 2003)
- The Access to the Countryside (Correction of Provisional and Conclusive Maps) (England) Regulations 2003 (21 July 2003)
- Guidance on copying maps of open country and registered common land. (PDF 25KB)
Page last modified: 11 March 2009
Page published: 23 October 2008