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25 March 2011 / Andrew Lugger
Issue: 7458 / Categories: Opinion
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Down on the farm

The credit crunch has hit the farming industry as hard as any other sector and the industry’s financial recovery has been hampered by ever-more exacting banking requirements...

The credit crunch has hit the farming industry as hard as any other sector and the industry’s financial recovery has been hampered by ever-more exacting banking requirements.

Public access to farmland brings added problems and many farmers are worried about the detrimental effect on business of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 (MCAA 2009) and their liabilities for the ramblers using the new coastal paths.

The Countryside Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW 2000) introduced—at a cost of £69m—a public right to walk across designated mountain, moor, heath, down and registered common land in England.

Some have argued that this open access has not been widely used and, according to the Ipsos MORI Coastal Access in England study, published in 2007, most of us are happy with the existing access to the coast. Why then has the government spent vast sums on MCAA 2009 and what

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