GLEAM News

November 2023

Calling Time on Off-roading – GLEAM’s new publication detailing the public nuisance and environmental damage being done by off-road 4x4s and motorbikes. Illustrated throughout with photographs, it explains why current legislation is unable to deal with the impacts of off-roading on the 7,000 miles of green lanes in England and Wales and calls for new legislation to bring all off-roading to an end.

December 2022

Defra is to take action on recreational motor vehicle use of green lanes. Following its inclusion of questions about green lanes in the public consultation on its response to the Glover Landscapes Review, Defra says it is going to identify green lanes that are unsuitable for motor vehicle use and seek agreement from the motor vehicle user groups that they will not object to TROs on these routes. Defra will also be revising its guidance on making TROs. For details, see letters to GLEAM from the then Minister for rights of way, Lord Benyon, and the new Minister, Trudy Harrison MP.

February 2022

An opportunity to end the use of green lanes by recreational motor vehicles. The Government is consulting on its response to the review of protected landscapes and has included questions which give the public and organisations the opportunity to call for the prohibition of recreational motor vehicles on green lanes. The response and the online consultation are at https://consult.defra.gov.uk/future-landscapes-strategy/government-response-to-the-landscapes-review/. If you don’t want to answer all the questions in the online consultation, just click through to the questions about motor vehicles on green lanes, questions 14 to 17. Please take part. GLEAM’s briefing http://www.gleam-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/GLEAM-briefing-Glover-Landscapes-Review.pdf gives more information.

The Friends of the Ridgeway are asking for legislation to prohibit non-essential motor vehicles from the whole of the Ridgeway all year round – see https://ridgewayfriends.org.uk/winter-newsletter-2022/

The Lake District Green Lanes Alliance provides summaries of the damage to the environment and the antisocial effects caused by motor vehicle use of green lanes – see https://www.savethelakedistrict.com/

The Peak District Green Lanes Alliance asks supporters to take part in the consultation and to pass the message on to others – see https://pdgla.org.uk/2022/01/government-consulting-on-banning-off-roading-please-take-part/.

The Yorkshire Dales Green Lanes Alliance explains the consultation questions and suggests some possible answers – see http://www.ydgla.co.uk/Latest_News.htm.

April 2021

Press release HRH the Duke of Edinburgh – His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh helped for 20 years in the effort to put an end to ‘off-roading’ in the countryside and we mourn his passing


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