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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will ensure that the new Government policy and guidance on the vehicular use of green lanes outlined in Making the Best Byways is open to public consultation for a 12-week period.

Asked by

Lord Mann (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

7 April 2005

Reference

432 c1664-5W;432 c1660W; 224876

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many kilometres of greenways there are in England; how many greenways and similar projects are planned; and if she will make a statement.

Asked by

Pete Wishart (Scottish National Party)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

10 March 2005

For answer on

23 March 2005

Answered on

23 March 2005

Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many kilometres of greenways there are in England; how many greenways and similar projects are planned; and if she will make a statement. [222058] Alun Michael: The Countryside Agency set up six `pilot greenway projects' in England between 1999 and 2002, which together totalled a distance of approximately 60 km (37 miles). The Countryside Agency defined "Greenways" as a "network of largely car-free, off-road routes connecting people to facilities and open spaces in and around towns and counties and to the countryside. For shared use by people of all abilities on foot, bike or horseback, for commuting play or leisure". The Agency's aim was to build on existing facilities and routes and was aimed at providing: Improved access to employment, shops, schools, leisure centres and places of interest. Inter-connecting links between communities. Continuity of routes. Encouragement to increase cycling, walking and horse riding. An improved environment--less traffic congestion and pollution. Attractive routes for leisure and recreational purposes. The Agency wished to link "Greenways" to other networks for non-motorised users such as the National Cycle Network, towpaths beside inland waterways, and National Trials. They include stretches of `quiet' minor roads designed to be more attractive for people on bikes, horseback or walking. The Countryside Agency has suggested to local authorities that through the introduction of their `Rights of Way Improvement Plans', they could identify further routes and develop further integration with public transport, as part of the effort to reverse the trend for increasing reliance on the private car for the journey to work.

Date

23 March 2005

Reference

432 c840-1W; 222058

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what action she is taking to resolve the PROW claim regarding bridleways linking the villages of Darcy Lever, Little Lever, Kearsley and Prestolee and the township of Farnworth in the constituency of Bolton South East in the Croal-Irwell...

Asked by

Brian Iddon (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 March 2005

Reference

217088; 431 c1921-2W;431 c1913-4W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 24th February, 431 c773W, on footpaths, for how many footpaths the Secretary of State has issued a direction authorising continued closure in each of the last five years; for what reasons in each...

Asked by

Anthony Steen (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 March 2005

Reference

431 c1935-6W;431 c1927-8W; 221202

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many footpaths have been temporarily closed for over five years; for what reasons in each case; and when she expects each to be re-opened.

Asked by

Anthony Steen (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

24 February 2005

Reference

217441; 431 c773W;431 c769W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what examples of best practice are available to (a) local authorities and (b) police authorities on (i) making provision for off-road motorcycles and (ii) tackling irresponsible off-road motorcycling. (Guide in Library Dep 04/1820). - Inc ref to "Making...

Asked by

Huw Irranca-Davies (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

8 November 2004

Reference

195779; 426 c448W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many national trails there are in the UK. - In England and Wales and four Long Distance Routes in Scotland.

Asked by

Jim Cunningham (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

21 July 2004

Reference

185095; 424 c255W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what proposals she has to ensure that there is adequate advance notice and on-site warning of crop-spraying adjacent to public footpaths.

Asked by

Colin Pickthall (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

13 July 2004

Reference

183497; 423 c1009W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many traffic regulation orders have been taken out on bridleways and other footpaths in the last three years.

Asked by

Lord Mann (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 June 2004

Reference

180106; 423 c293W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has for new bridleways in Lancashire.

Asked by

Lindsay Hoyle (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

30 June 2004

Reference

180425; 423 c291W

House

House of Commons

2R adjourned:Rights of Way (Amendment) Bill 2003/04

Rights of Way (Amendment) Bill. Second reading debate. Adjourned. Debate to be resumed on 16 July.

Lead member

Jim Dowd

Answering member

Alun Michael

Department

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Debates on bills

Date

21 May 2004

Reference

421 c1262-76

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will set out the history of the request to close the footpath at Cuillan Close, Rise Park; when her Department expects to compete the paperwork necessary to allow Nottingham City Council to close the footpath; and...

Asked by

Graham Allen (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

4 May 2004

Reference

420 c1387W;420 c1387-8W; 169380

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many roads used as public paths, as introduced under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, have been reclassified as byways open to all traffic in accordance with the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981...

Asked by

Ed Davey (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

29 March 2004

Reference

419 c1203W;419 c1205W; 162357

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what discussions she has had with Her Majesty's Royal Engineers on the maintenance of unsurfaced roads when drafting the consultation paper Use of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles on Rights of Way; and what plans she has to do so...

Asked by

Bob Laxton (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Tabled on

3 March 2004

For answer on

15 March 2004

Answered on

15 March 2004

Mr. Laxton: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what discussions she has had with Her Majesty's Royal Engineers on the maintenance of unsurfaced roads when drafting the consultation paper Use of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles on Rights of Way; and what plans she has to do so during the consultation; [159714] (2) on what basis her Department decided to reduce the time for the classification of highways to one year; [159715] (3) how much the Highways Agency has spent on the maintenance of unsurfaced byways (a) in 2003-04 and (b) over the last decade; [159716] (4) how much recreational traffic on unsurfaced roads has changed in the last decade; [159717] (5) what (a) evidence her Department has collated and (b) investigations it has carried out, on (i) the level of motorcycle use of unsealed roads and (ii) the extent of the damage this has caused; [159718] (6) whether her Department examined the Hierarchy of Trail Routes in the Lake District National Park and how the scheme could apply to the maintenance of unsurfaced roads when drafting the consultation paper Use of Mechanically Propelled Vehicles on Rights of Way. [159719] Alun Michael: As set out in the recent consultation paper "The use of mechanically propelled vehicles on rights of way," I consider it inappropriate and unsustainable that historic evidence of use by horse- drawn vehicles or dedications for vehicular use at a time before the internal combustion engine existed can give rise to rights to use modern mechanically propelled vehicles. I have proposed that this should no longer be the case, but that a period of one year might be allowed for the recording of byways open to all traffic based on such evidence. I will consider carefully the responses to these proposals. As explained in the consultation paper, we intend to revise the advice andguidance on managing the different sorts of traffic on vehicular rights of way in the publication "Making the Best of Byways (1997)". In doing so, we will examine the Hierarchy of Trail Routes in the Lake District National Park and how a similar approach might improve the management of unsurfaced roads elsewhere. We will also look at various techniques for maintaining unsurfaced roads, including those used by Her Majesty's Royal Engineers, which have been applied with some success on the Ridgeway National Trail. The consultation paper invites views on any other ways in which Making The Best of Byways might be revised. Local highway authorities are responsible for maintaining rights of way, not the Highways Agency. Information on how much these authorities have spent on the maintenance of unsurfaced byways could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. We are currently conducting a year-long study of a representative sample of byways open to all traffic, to collect evidence of the level of use of these ways by mechanically propelled vehicles and their surface condition. What is important and what we want to establish, is not how much the volume of traffic has changed, but what it is now and whether it is sustainable.

Date

15 March 2004

Reference

419 c2-3W; 159714;159715;159716;159717;159718;159719

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what plans she has to ban electric shopping scooters from rights of way; and if she will make a statement. - Inc ref to section 34 of the Road Traffic Act 1988, Invalid Carriages on Highways Regulations 1988...

Asked by

Lord Goodman of Wycombe (Conservative)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

9 March 2004

Reference

159258; 418 c1390-1W;418 c1392-3W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what measures are being taken to prevent unauthorised off-road motor cycling.

Asked by

Wayne David (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

3 March 2004

Reference

418 c937W;418 c953-4W; 158090

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what estimate she has made of the cost of introducing a single Traffic Restriction Order (TRO) for all those parts of the whole Ridgeway where she and the relevant local authorities have agreed that such a TRO would...

Asked by

David Rendel (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Written questions

Status

Answered

Date

10 February 2004

Reference

154378; 417 c1301W

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, if she will make a statement on protection of the Ridgeway.

Asked by

David Rendel (Liberal Democrat)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Oral questions - Lead

Status

Answered

Date

5 February 2004

Reference

417 c893; 152872

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Alun Michael (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

5 February 2004

Reference

417 c893

House

House of Commons

Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answered by

Alun Michael (Labour)

Answering body

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Type

Oral answers to questions

Date

5 February 2004

Reference

417 c893

House

House of Commons

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