The Conservative Environment
Spokesman, Damian Green MP, has attacked a Labour amendment to the Countryside
and Rights of Way Bill, which would force golf courses to allow Ramblers to walk
across the course.
The Labour Member, Gordon
Prentice, has tabled Amendment 147, which would remove golf courses from the
list of types of land on which free access for everyone is not allowed.
Mr Green said: “This Labour
amendment would allow anyone to walk across a golf course, disrupting play, whether
inadvertently or deliberately. It would be dangerous for walkers and hugely irritating
for golfers.
Mr Prentice, whom the Government
has chosen to sit on the committee, has already said he wants to use the Bill
to ban hunting. Apparently, he also wants to make life miserable for golfers
as well.”
