Hugh Craddock
@pannageman.bsky.social
Living in Surrey and working for the Open Spaces Society. Married with one horse. Posts mainly on commons and rights of way. Posts entirely my own.
This comment about wealth also misses the point that many boys were at Dulwich on local-authority free places (as I was).
December 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
This comment about wealth also misses the point that many boys were at Dulwich on local-authority free places (as I was).
It’s now free to place an electronically-supplied State notice in the Gazette: www.thegazette.co.uk/place-notice...
Price list: 2025
The price list for placing a notice in The Gazette will come into effect from 1 January 2025. Pricing for public sector mandatory notices or state notices and pricing for all other notices.
www.thegazette.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It’s now free to place an electronically-supplied State notice in the Gazette: www.thegazette.co.uk/place-notice...
Propose a road and Members will fall over themselves in enthusiasm to push it through. Propose a route for NMUs, and they’ll worry about the impact on the unfortunate landowner. (To be fair, a new link road will be intrusive, but unlikely to be a new source of dogs worrying livestock.)
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Propose a road and Members will fall over themselves in enthusiasm to push it through. Propose a route for NMUs, and they’ll worry about the impact on the unfortunate landowner. (To be fair, a new link road will be intrusive, but unlikely to be a new source of dogs worrying livestock.)
Thinking further, @finstumpf.bsky.social is right: the amendment would apply to Wales. But as it is a devolved matter, the Government almost certainly would not accept it in this form.
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Thinking further, @finstumpf.bsky.social is right: the amendment would apply to Wales. But as it is a devolved matter, the Government almost certainly would not accept it in this form.
Oddly enough, the centrally-placed south-bound cycle path has recently been scraped and sided after years of dereliction, and now looks as good as new. But will anyone use it given the startling off-side entrance at Givons Grove roundabout, and the hatched inside-lane alternative?
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Oddly enough, the centrally-placed south-bound cycle path has recently been scraped and sided after years of dereliction, and now looks as good as new. But will anyone use it given the startling off-side entrance at Givons Grove roundabout, and the hatched inside-lane alternative?
Presumably a formality: the presentation will have been ‘decided’ by the PCC?
October 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Presumably a formality: the presentation will have been ‘decided’ by the PCC?
It seems that if you board at the P&R, it’s free. But board earlier or later, and you pay. Bizarre!
October 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It seems that if you board at the P&R, it’s free. But board earlier or later, and you pay. Bizarre!
Fascinating thanks. Do these temporalities have real value — and does this mean that during the vacancy, the revenues go to the Crown vice the Church?
October 7, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Fascinating thanks. Do these temporalities have real value — and does this mean that during the vacancy, the revenues go to the Crown vice the Church?
Yes, that’s probably universal in Europe.
But ‘official’ free station-wifi can often be good in the UK (and Network Rail station-wifi usually excellent).
But ‘official’ free station-wifi can often be good in the UK (and Network Rail station-wifi usually excellent).
September 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Yes, that’s probably universal in Europe.
But ‘official’ free station-wifi can often be good in the UK (and Network Rail station-wifi usually excellent).
But ‘official’ free station-wifi can often be good in the UK (and Network Rail station-wifi usually excellent).
Compelling throughout thank you!
Should we infer from your run-in with your mobile-network operator that you weren’t testing European rail wifi-connectivity?
Should we infer from your run-in with your mobile-network operator that you weren’t testing European rail wifi-connectivity?
September 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Compelling throughout thank you!
Should we infer from your run-in with your mobile-network operator that you weren’t testing European rail wifi-connectivity?
Should we infer from your run-in with your mobile-network operator that you weren’t testing European rail wifi-connectivity?
As my geography lecturer used to say, we can grow bananas on Ben Nevis if we want to. It’s a question of resources.
September 6, 2025 at 7:31 AM
As my geography lecturer used to say, we can grow bananas on Ben Nevis if we want to. It’s a question of resources.
Why build anything to a specified standard if it's not going to be maintained to that standard?
August 8, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Why build anything to a specified standard if it's not going to be maintained to that standard?
<Especially> those.
August 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
<Especially> those.
“The period goes outside the quotes.” Always?
August 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“The period goes outside the quotes.” Always?
Don’t forget Shirley Porter, who paid a £12m surcharge for her council’s targeted sales policy.
August 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Don’t forget Shirley Porter, who paid a £12m surcharge for her council’s targeted sales policy.
Careless driving etc must be proven, and might not be prosecuted if, eg, pedestrian steps out without looking. But on a zebra, there’s strict liability: you must be prepared to stop.
As I said: you have cleared this with legal, haven’t you?
As I said: you have cleared this with legal, haven’t you?
June 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Careless driving etc must be proven, and might not be prosecuted if, eg, pedestrian steps out without looking. But on a zebra, there’s strict liability: you must be prepared to stop.
As I said: you have cleared this with legal, haven’t you?
As I said: you have cleared this with legal, haven’t you?
Failing to give way on a zebra is a strict-liability offence www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/24... Elsewhere, it may be evidence for careless, and inconsiderate, driving—or it may not. But on an ersatz zebra, pedestrians may they have right of way.
Have you run this past your legal team?
Have you run this past your legal team?
The Zebra, Pelican and Puffin Pedestrian Crossings Regulations and General Directions 1997
This Instrument revokes the existing Regulations relating to Zebra and Pelican pedestrian crossings and the General Directions relating to Pelican crossings and replaces them with a single Instrument....
www.legislation.gov.uk
June 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Failing to give way on a zebra is a strict-liability offence www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/24... Elsewhere, it may be evidence for careless, and inconsiderate, driving—or it may not. But on an ersatz zebra, pedestrians may they have right of way.
Have you run this past your legal team?
Have you run this past your legal team?
Is that wise? Pedestrians may justifiably assume that they have absolute priority. Yet drivers may not have the same strict liability (as they do on compliant zebras), and so be subject to neither civil nor criminal sanction.
June 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Is that wise? Pedestrians may justifiably assume that they have absolute priority. Yet drivers may not have the same strict liability (as they do on compliant zebras), and so be subject to neither civil nor criminal sanction.
‘Efficiency savings’? They, and you, are using the Tories’ language, still trying to brainwash the public into believing that cuts in spending don’t lead to cuts in services. They do.
June 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘Efficiency savings’? They, and you, are using the Tories’ language, still trying to brainwash the public into believing that cuts in spending don’t lead to cuts in services. They do.
No motorist must ever be inconvenienced unless unavoidable. NMUs? Sorry, didn’t hear you.
June 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
No motorist must ever be inconvenienced unless unavoidable. NMUs? Sorry, didn’t hear you.
Welcome to Surrey. I wonder if the council can show us any roads where encroachment has been permitted across three-quarters of the width…or even half?
June 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Welcome to Surrey. I wonder if the council can show us any roads where encroachment has been permitted across three-quarters of the width…or even half?
The 1702 Order really is a delight. If only all meeting minutes were modelled on its form.
May 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The 1702 Order really is a delight. If only all meeting minutes were modelled on its form.
That could easily be done by secondary legislation removing the camping restriction in CROW: Sch.2,para.3: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/3.... But it would still be illegal (criminal) to camp on ‘urban’ commons including many in the Lake District: that would require a primary-legislation change.
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000
An Act to make new provision for public access to the countryside; to amend the law relating to public rights of way; to enable traffic regulation orders to be made for the purpose of conserving an ar...
www.legislation.gov.uk
May 25, 2025 at 7:05 AM
That could easily be done by secondary legislation removing the camping restriction in CROW: Sch.2,para.3: www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/3.... But it would still be illegal (criminal) to camp on ‘urban’ commons including many in the Lake District: that would require a primary-legislation change.