when can landowners restrict access and when they cannot restrict access

[knowledge=gain]

just came across this government webpage for landowners restricting access and when they can not restrict access

28-day restrictions​

You can exclude or restrict public access rights for up to 28 days per calendar year except for land in the coastal margin. On tenanted land, the farm tenant has the 28-day restrictions allowance, not the land owner.

You can’t use these restrictions on:

• bank holidays, Christmas Day or Good Friday
• Saturdays between 1 June and 11 August
• Sundays between 1 June and 30 September
• more than 4 weekend days in any calendar year

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/open-access-land-and-the-coastal-margin-how-to-restrict-public-access

 

[Broch]

Those regulations apply to Open Access Land - if you search for the maps of OAL you'll find that there is relatively little other than moorland and upland. See here for example for Wales:

Natural Resources Wales / Map of places to visit

Map of places to visit - Explore our woodlands, nature reserves, trails and open access land.

naturalresources.wales

and here:

New map | DataMapWales

datamap.gov.wales

 

[Mesquite]

You can search for OAL land in England on the Natural England website

 

[knowledge=gain]

Those regulations apply to Open Access Land - if you search for the maps of OAL you'll find that there is relatively little other than moorland and upland. See here for example for Wales:

Natural Resources Wales / Map of places to visit

Map of places to visit - Explore our woodlands, nature reserves, trails and open access land.

naturalresources.wales

and here:

New map | DataMapWales

datamap.gov.wales

thank you

 

[knowledge=gain]

You can search for OAL land in England on the Natural England website

thank you