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Marine and Coastal Access Bill [HL]

I hope that the Minister can add some flesh to the phrase, ""have regard to the safety"" and give the Committee some feeling about what steps should be taken to ensure safety. There is something between allowing a coastal path where great ravines have to be leapt or which is three inches wide along a sheer cliff face and Battersea Park. I am the sort of person who would like Battersea Park to be without the people and along the coast. Would this provision be met by having the sort of notice that deterred me when I saw it last summer in Scotland? There was a warning sign that said, "Walkers should wear proper footwear". As that was a tourist area, I dare say that they had had problems with people wearing flip-flops. It sent me back to find somewhere to sit and look at the sea instead of walking along it. There are a lot of degrees of this, and it would be helpful to understand it a little better.