Written Question·Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs·UIN 97628

Rights of Way: Disability

Tabled: 5 December 2025
Answered: 16 December 2025

Question

Adrian Ramsay

Green PartyWaveney Valley

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of section 147ZA of the Highways Act 1980 on the rights of disabled people to access the outdoors.

Answer

Mary Creagh
This Government is supportive of the provision within section 147ZA of the 1980 Act that enables an authority to work with landowners and relevant parties to replace or improve existing structures so that they can be used more easily by individuals that m...

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