Further supplementary memorandum submitted
by Natural England (DMB 56b)
MAPPING APPEALS
UNDER THE
CROW ACT
2000
At the Efra Committee oral evidence session
on 4 June 2008, Mr Tipping requested information from Natural
England about the number of mapping appeals made under the Countryside
and Rights of Way Act 2000 (CROW).
In England, 44,093 parcels of land were provisionally
mapped by the Countryside Agency under CROW section 4 as open
country or registered common land. 3,172 mapping appeals were
brought—this is some 7% of cases.
Most of these appeals alleged that land did
not consist wholly or predominantly of mountain, moor, heath or
down (as defined in the Act and the Agency's methodology), or
was not registered common land, as the case may be.
Determination of these appeals related to the
situation at the time the inspector considered the case. It therefore
reflected any changes in the management or degree of enclosure
of the land that had been made subsequent to the Agency's original
mapping decision. On this basis, three quarters of the 3,172 mapping
appeals were wholly or partly successful. This led to the removal
of some 2% of the total area that had been provisionally mapped
by the Agency.
Almost half of the £69 million cost of
implementing CROW open access rights related to operating this
case-by-case mapping and appeals process.
Natural England
June 2008
| 
