296 The coastal access duty

Part 9 Coastal Access

The coastal access duty

296  The coastal access duty

(1)     Natural England and the Secretary of State must exercise the relevant functions in order to secure the following objectives.

(2)     The first objective is that there is a route for the whole of the English coast which—

(a)     consists of one or more long-distance routes along which the public are enabled to make recreational journeys on foot or by ferry, and

(b)     (except to the extent that it is completed by ferry) passes over land which is accessible to the public.

(3)     The second objective is that, in association with that route (“the English coastal route”), a margin of land along the length of the English coast is accessible to the public for the purposes of its enjoyment by them in conjunction with that route or otherwise,

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