Guidance and regulation

As the owner or occupier of land with a public right of way across it, you must keep the route visible and not obstruct or endanger users.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 4 January 2024

Responsibilities for visitors to the countryside and those who manage the land.

• From: Natural England and 1 others
• Updated: 26 May 2023

• The Countryside Code: advice for countryside visitors

  Your guide to enjoying our parks and waterways, coast and countryside.…

• The Countryside Code: advice for land managers

  Advice for land managers to help visitors follow the Countryside Code.…

As a land owner or manager, find out about your responsibilities and how to manage public access.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 1 June 2023

Find out about Natural England's progress with improving coastal access in England.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 6 March 2024

As an owner or manager of land, understand how to restrict public access for land management, public safety or fire prevention reasons.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 27 March 2015

How to make changes to the legal status of a public right of way.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 1 January 2008

As a local highway authority (usually a county council or national park authority) you have statutory duties to record and keep public rights of way open.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 7 December 2015

How your personal information is used within the Planning Inspectorate

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 21 February 2024

Find out which Environment Agency locks and weirs you can fish at, the licences and permits you need and when you can fish.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 4 September 2023

How to object or make representations to a public rights of way order

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 25 January 2023

Decisions and maps for rights of way orders published within 2023 and 2024

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 12 March 2024

Rye Harbour tide times.

• From: Environment Agency
• Updated: 18 December 2023

Decisions and maps for rights of way orders published within 2020, 2021 and 2022

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 25 January 2023

Find out what visitors can and can't do on greens and how to maintain and de-register your land as an owner or local authority.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 7 October 2014

Guidance on methods of minimising annoyance or disturbance caused by the operation of loudspeakers fixed to ice-cream vans and similar vehicles.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Updated: 1 October 2013

Start date notices, inquiry & hearing notices and rejection letters published in 2023 for rights of way orders

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 21 December 2023

Under section 38 of the Commons Act 2006, you need our consent to carry out any restricted works on land registered as common land.

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 26 March 2024

Guidance on procedures for considering objections to definitive map and public path orders.

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Updated: 22 June 2022

As an owner or manager of land in the coastal margin, find out about your responsibilities and how to manage public access.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
• Updated: 27 March 2015

Find out about Natural England's work to improve coastal access.

• From: Natural England
• Updated: 6 March 2024