Documents

The Trails Trust was commissioned by DEFRA to carry out a ‘Test and Trial’ with the aim of incentivising green infrastructure public access and biodiversity creation in land management. This will inform the… Read more: ELM scheme Test & Trial 159A Final report

The Trails Trust Trustees and members call upon Government to abandon the 2026 deadline to register unrecorded Rights of Way. Read our press release and full briefing note here:

Test 159 – How to incentivise green infrastructure access & biodiversity creation The Trails Trust and the Mendip Hills Team are pleased to be able to publish the final report Background Leaving the… Read more: 2021 DEFRA Tests & Trials

In June 2020, DEFRA re-launched its previously paused consultation on the design of a new Environmental Land Management scheme (ELM). This is the response that The Trails Trust submitted:

The Trails Trust Management Board held a trustee meeting followed by the 2019 AGM on Thursday July 4th 2019 at Virginia Cottage, Upper Vobster, Radstock, BA3 5SA by kind invitation of Amy and… Read more: Trustees’ Report, 2019

TTT in partnership with the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (MHAONB) unit has submitted a green infrastructure (rights of way) trial proposal to Defra to be considered as a public access… Read more: TTT / MHAONB trial proposal

The Government has published its 25 Year Environment Plan which can be accessed online here. This is associated with the Agriculture Bill 2018. TTT has responded to the passage of the bill by… Read more: “A Green Future”

The Trails Trust publication – all about express dedication – case law and benefits of use to landowners, users and local highway authorities Express Dedication at Common Law (EDCL) This paper provides a… Read more: The Creation of Highways

In line with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) coming into force in the UK in May 2018, we have published our GDPR Internal Policy, and our Privacy Policy, as below:

In 2017, TTT asked barrister Matthew White to advise on creation of highways at common law, in particular in the light of reluctance on the part of some (by no means all) local… Read more: Legal advice on Creation of highways

TTT was incorporated in 1997 as a company limited by guarantee – registration number 3637593. TTT became a charity in 2002 – registration number 1094139. The articles of association have been updated several… Read more: Articles of Association

The Trails Trust approach has been tested at least once at public inquiry, and helped to bring about a successful Appeal. Somerset County Council had refused to make an order to show as… Read more: Public Inquiry success: Upper Vobster, 2012/13

Below is a letter sent from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to Natural England, in November 2012. The letter was intended to offer guidance on legal and practical… Read more: DEFRA advice on Express Dedication

Creating Multi-User Public Rights of Way – A Guide for Local Groups written by Rachel Thompson MBE for The Trails Trust in 2011. About this document – the book was supported by the… Read more: TTT guide to creating Rights of Way