The British Horse Society welcomes a high court ruling that a council may not lawfully authorise a cattle-grid across the full width of a footpath or bridleway.
Mr Alan Kind, who edits the journal of the Byways and Bridleways Trust, had served a statutory notice on Northumberland County Council to remove the cattle grid, which obstructed the bridleway at Capheaton, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Following several...