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Welcome to The Bulletin!
In this Bulletin: New
Senior Executive Fighting fund update Join the Ride for Access BHS Access Conference 2008 Petition Update BHS
members elect new Trustees at Society’s AGM BHS Article in countryside Jobs service newsletter Self-closing gates Planning
Application forms Habitat/Nature conservation Training Dates Access in the news Hansard Public Inquiries Useful
Links
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New Senior Executive
We are delighted to announce that Heather Holmes has been
promoted from Executive, Access to Senior Executive Access. Heather became Senior Executive on 26 June, and
we wish her all the best.
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Fighting Fund update Current fund total: £16,789.51
Please donate what you are able to afford at www.justgiving.com/accessfightingfund. Money raised will be used to engage in legal proceedings on behalf of all equestrians.
If you'd prefer not to donate online, you can send a cheque,
made payable to the 'The British Horse Society' , to: Access and Rights of Way Department, Stoneleigh Deer Park, Kenilworth,
Warwickshire CV8 2XZ. Please indicate that you'd like the money to go to the Access Fighting Fund.
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Join the Ride for Access
The BHS is encouraging riders and carriage drivers throughout
the UK to hold a BHS ‘Ride for Access’ to raise money for the Access Fighting Fund.
Ride organisers can
get a Ride For Access pack by contacting BHS HQ, enabling them to publicise their event, raise funds and invite others to
join in.
Access Senior Executive, Heather Holmes, said: “Organising a Ride For Access is a fun, sociable way
of raising funds for the BHS, and getting together with other riders in your area.”
Contact the Access department for more details.
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BHS Access Conference 2008 21 September The George
Hotel, Devonshire Street, Penrith CA11 7SU
Following last year's very successful conference in the
South West, the BHS Access department has decided to hold a conference with many of the same speakers, and some new additions,
for our volunteers and members in the North of England.
Tickets cost £35 (this forms a returnable deposit for
our BHS Access Officers, BRC Access Officers and Affiliated Bridleways Groups).
Confirmed speakers so far are:
Pennine Bridleway team; Roger Wright, Highways Agency; Catriona Cook, RABO Yorkshire; Richard Brooks, MOD and Durham County
Council.
A full programme and booking forms can be found here and can also be obtained from the office by calling 01926 707712 or emailing access@bhs.org.uk.
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Petition Update
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide funding and use
legislation for creation of new public bridleways
Horse Riders have access to less than 25% of the current public
rights of way network, and face danger when using today's busy roads.
To ensure appropriate funding is in place
and legislation (Highway Act 1980 S26) to be used by local authorities for new bridleways to be shown on definitive maps and
ordnance survey maps. To ensure the Highway Agency develops a national programme of re-instating severed crossing
points by creating new dedicated bridle bridges or underpasses as safe crossing points for motorways or trunk roads. To
ensure local authorities and parish councils develop local joined up community riding circuits of 5-15 miles to rebuild the
national bridleroute network.
Find out more at http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/publicbridleways/
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BHS members elect new Trustees at Society’s AGM
British Horse Society members elected three new Trustees
at the Annual General Meeting, held at Saddlers’ Hall in London.
Sarah Bucks, David Kerry and Margot Tiffany
were elected following a keenly-fought contest and Hilary McKenna was co-opted to the Board as the representative of British
Riding Clubs. Hilary replaces Laurie Punnett, who stood down after serving the maximum term of six years.
Sarah Bucks
is a committed access volunteer who specialises in historical research and whose goal is to improve the off-road riding and
driving network. A graduate engineer, Sarah has worked in management consultancy in New York and London and has run her own
property business. She keeps horses and rides daily.
David Kerry is Senior Road Safety Officer for Cumbria and has
assisted with access and rights of way in Cumbria. He has been involved with government consultations and established equestrian
safety links worldwide. David has been a Riding and Road Safety Trainer since 1983.
Margot Tiffany is chairman of the
Society’s NE Yorkshire committee and has spent her life teaching and helping riders of all types, from competition to
leisure riders. She represents all Registered Instructors on the Training and Examination committee and feels that increased
membership of the Society is the way to facilitate improved access through a good bridleway network.
Hilary McKenna
is best known to the equestrian community for her role as British Riding Clubs’ National Representative for Area 2 (North
East). This involves acting as official steward at local area qualifiers, assessing new clubs applying for affiliation and
offering help and advice to clubs and members. Hilary has been a past team manager for the British Riding Club Team that competes
in Europe and still contributes towards the riders of the team.
At a Board Meeting following the AGM, Robert Pickles
FBHS was confirmed as the Training and Examinations representative, Ian Maclellan was co-opted as Treasurer and Christine
Casey was co-opted as representative for Ireland.
For further information and pictures, please contact: Alison
Coleman, Communications Executive, The British Horse Society, 01926 707737 or email her.
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BHS Article in countryside Jobs service newsletter
The Access work of the BHS was featured in the recent special
edition of the Countryside Jobs Service magazine.
View the newsletter
Countryside Jobs service will now also advertise BHS volunteer vacancies in their job listings. As this site
reaches a wide audience, we hope it will help recruit new Access volunteers throughout the UK.
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Self-closing gates
The Access department is interested to hear of any incidents that horse riders
have had with self-closing gates. We are trying to establish whether there are particular problems with particular types of
gates, catches or self-closing mechanisms, and whether the British Standard for gaps, gates and stiles will require any amendments.
If you have had such an incident, please email or post details to us, including the location of the incident and a description of what happened.
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Planning Application forms
The
deficiencies of the new government-devised planning application form that all local authorities are now expected to use are
starting to become apparent.
Instead of identifying applications that will affect rights of way, the question
about rights of way on the new form asks the applicant whether the application will require the diversion, stopping up or
creation of a right of way.
This means that any right of way on the site, or adjacent to the site, or that is
to be used as the vehicular access to the site is unlikely to be identified unless the applicant actually intends to build
over it. So enjoyment of the right of way could potentially be severely damaged, for example by a large increase in vehicular
traffic over it, but the fact that the application affects a right of way will not be advertised, nor are the highway authority’s
rights of way department or user groups likely to be consulted.
The BHS and the Rights of Way Review Committee pointed
this out to the Department for Communities and Local Government when the draft form was being prepared but DCLG refused to
amend it.
The BHS would like to receive details of any applications that illustrate this point so that we can them
put this evidence to DCLG
Please email details to access@bhs.org.uk
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Habitat/Nature conservation
The British Horse Society would like to receive details of locations where
existing Access to Horse Riders has been denied or made more difficult for habitat/conservation reasons. Once we have such
information we will be able to make representations to Natural England regarding the exclusion of horse riders from such areas.
Please
email details to access@bhs.org.uk
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Training
Dates
2008 2
October Rooting Street Farm Riding Centre, Little Chart, Ashford, Kent, TN27 0PX, Day 1
Please visit our training pages to get information on 2008 training days.
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Access
in the news
Access Press releases
are available here
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Hansard
National Parks Rights of Way Rights of Way: Vehicles
Northern Ireland Recreational
Use of Forests
Scotland National Parks Planning
Motions and Amendments *S3M-2086
Jim Hume: Hawick Common Riding-That the Parliament warmly congratulates the organisers of this year’s
Hawick Common Riding, the first of the Borders’ festivals; notes the historical importance of such an event which celebrates
the ancient custom of riding the boundaries of the parish and the capture of an English flag in 1514; recognises that common
ridings festivals allow Borderers to pay their respects to those who risked their lives protecting the townspeople, and wishes
all participants well.
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Public Inquiries
Below is a list of the PIs the BHS has been notified of
for the next two months. If you are involved in any PIs (at all, not just these), let us know quickly, so we can provide you
with any assistance you may require in a cohesive and timely way.
FPS/M1900/7/47 08/07/2008 Chorleywood Mem Hall
Common Rd WD3 5LN FPS/Z0645/4/31 08/07/2008 Hartford Moss Farm Rec Centre Northwich CW8 4BG FPS/Y3235/7/40 09/07/2008
Worfield Recreation Room Worfield Nr Bridgnorth FPS/J1155?7/69 10/07/2008 Morxhard Bishop Mem Hall Church St Crediton EX17
6 FPS/M1005/5/3 15/07/2008 The Council Chamber Amber Valley Council,Ripley FPS/G4240/7/13 16/07/2008 Committee room
1 Council Offices Aston-under-Lyne FPS/J1155?7/68 22/07/2008 The Village Hall Offwell Honiton FPS/Q9495/7/16 29/07/2008
Loweswater Village Hall Cockermouth Cumbra C FPS/D3450/7/27 29/07/2008 Rm 4 Peel Building St Chads Place Stafford FPS/P0430/7/23
29/07/2008 Evreham Ctr Swallow St Iver Bucks FPS/J1155/7/71 30/07/2008 Village Hall Northleigh Honiton FPS/G3300/4/77
05/08/2008 Council Chamber Deane House Belvedere Rd Taunton FPS/W4515/7/1 06/08/2008 Wallsend Town Hall High St Wallsend FPS/E0535/7/23
19/08/2008 Jubilee Hall School Lane Eaton Socon PE19 8GW FPS/E1855/4/16 19/08/2008 Classroom F24 North Bromsgrove H School
B60 1BA FPS/T1600/7/54 19/08/2008 Leonard Stanley Vill Hall Marsh Rd Nr Stonehouse Gl FPS/F4410/5/1 27/08/2008 Auckley
Community Centre Auckley Doncaster
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Useful Links |
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Legal and Technical Strategy for the Equine Industry in Northern Ireland View decisions on public inquiries since 19 Feb 2007 Paths For All holds equestrian access factsheets for Scotland Planning Inspectorate Law Library Historic maps online Defra's updated access newsletters (updated) MAGIC - web based interactive mapping Foot and mouth advice for horse owners Ministry of Justice Statute Law database Request a copy of Natural England Discovering Lost Ways E Bulletin (updated) Highway Code British and Irish Legal Information Institute Horse Industry Strategy
Miscellaneous Report potholes directly to your local authority Report obstructions directly to your local authority Find out who your MP is and write to them directly Take long distance riding to the extreme with the Long Riders Guild
Off-Road Riding BHS Access Campaigns Ride UK Shropshire riding National Trails South of Scotland Countryside Trails Riding in Northern Ireland Horses Welcome |
Organisations Equine Ramblers The Open Spaces Society Ramblers Association The Forestry Commission Sustrans The Countryside Agency's interactive mapping page The British Wind Energy Association. South Pennine Packhorse Trails Trust The National Federation of Bridleway Associations The Byways and Bridleways Trust Endurance GB Mendip Bridleways and Byways Association Hants and West Sussex Borders Bridleways Group Walking and Riding in Buckinghamshire Mendip Cross Trails Trust : newsletter available BHS Access: Cornwall CTC Natural England Forest of Rossendale Bridleways Association BHS Ireland |
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