HLS guidance is quite clear that the application for HLS funding should in no way alter the character of the landscape. Fencing open common land does just that, so why is Defra standing by watching what appears to me to be a corruption of the justice system at the publics expense?

Says Maureen Comber

It cannot be right for the applications for fencing common land to be raised by council officials or wildlife officers at the expense of the taxpayer when in fact the LA's do not own the commons concerned but have the care and protection vested in them? Part of that care includes making sure they are not encroached upon by fencing.

The commoners are the people who have the legal interest and yet they are not being consulted in the first instance as per Defra's guidance; which is making it appear that so long as there is consultation the law can be breached.

HLS guidance,fourth edition Jan 2013 is quite clear that the application for HLS funding should in no way alter the character of the landscape. Fencing open common land does just that, so why is Defra standing by watching what appears to me to be a corruption of the justice system at the publics expense?

The only transparency we may have is that the Planning Inspectorate can only be challenged in the High Court. With lawyers fees impossibly high I would say that deprives the ordinary man of any accountability or justice come to that.

Do I have to therefore assume that Defra is part of an initiative to take control of our open common land?

Commons Act 2006

ALL OF OUR OPEN ACCESS LANDS, COMMON LAND, BRIDLE WAYS AND PUBLIC ACCESS ARE BEING OR HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND QUANGOS

Says Tony Barnett

ALL OF OUR OPEN ACCESS LANDS, COMMON LAND, BRIDLE WAYS AND PUBLIC ACCESS ARE BEING OR HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY WAY COLLUSION BETWEEN CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND QUANGOS, AS CHARITIES ARE IN RECEIPT OF GOVERNMENT FUNDING, THEY ARE AS MUCH A QUANGO AS NATURAL ENGLAND, LAND REGISTRY AND COURTS ETC.

HOW WE FIGHT THEM IS BY YOUR OWN CHOICE, BUT, THESE CAN BE DEFEATED BY THE VERY LEGISLATION PROVIDED, THIS IS MY WAY, KEEP TO THE HIGH MORAL GROUND AND NOT SUBTERRANEAN AS IS THE PREFERENCE OF THE QUANGOS.

HER MAJESTY WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN ROYAL ASSENT TO ANY PARLIAMENTARY BILL THAT HAS HIDDEN AGENDAS, HOWEVER, SHE CANNOT BE HELD, FOR THE CONNIVANCE OF HER MINISTERS, HER MAJESTY DID NOT SELECT THEM, NOR WOULD SHE!

WE FIGHT FOR QUEEN AND COUNTRY, NOT FOR THE CRIMINALS THAT "PRETEND" TO RUN THIS GREAT COUNTRY.