Inaccessible Lands

There are certain types of land over which the new access rights are not exercisable.  These include:

  • Buildings or other structures
  • Curtilages of buildings that are not houses (e.g. farmyards)
  • In relation to a house, sufficient adjacent land to enable persons living there to have reasonable measures of privacy in the house to ensure that their enjoyment of the house is not unreasonably disturbed
  • Private gardens in common ownership
  • Land next to schools
  • Land developed or set out as a sports or playing field or for a particular recreational purpose
  • Land in which crops have been sown or are growing (but field margins are OK)
  • Land excluded by virtue of past entry by payment