Commons Bill [HL]

No one is more enthusiastic than I about preventing unauthorised motor vehicle access to common land, but I fear that the amendment tabled by the noble Lord, Lord Greaves, simply will not work. Apart from anything else, it will raise the problem of people driving to their own homes across common land. It will also lay on the owner of the land or the commons association the responsibility to prevent what is already, in many respects, illegal activity—under the Road Traffic Act as amended by the CROW Act. With the greatest respect to the noble Lord, I do not see how the provision could possibly fit into the Bill.