Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 29 March 2016.
James Heappey
Conservative, Wells
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, what her policy is on the extension of the definition of mapped open countryside to caves.
George Eustice
The Minister of State, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Section 2(1) of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 provides for a right of access on foot for the purposes of open-air recreation to land which has been mapped as open country (mountain, moor, heath and down) and registered common land.
The Government has no plans to extend the definition of mapped land under that Act to apply to caves.
Yes19 people think so
No5 people think not
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