"I accept that some ascents are more difficult than others and that some
might take more than a day. However, even if there are such mountains, I
am not certain that it is the Government's duty to encourage people to
climb them. The activities involved are extremely specialist and
dangerous operations; only professional mountaineers would undertake
such climbs and go bivouacking up mountains. Such people currently have
their own ways of achieving access to mountains and they form a group of
only half a dozen or a dozen individuals in the United Kingdom".

'I cannot understand how consideration could be given to allowing access (to
the countryside) at night. It is absolutely crazy. It encourages felons and
its is frightening for those who live in lonely cottages. I remember when I
was in Malaya ...'

'Death... is an all too familiar end for those who wander off the beaten
track even by day, let alone by night. The risk of fires, criminal activity
and vandalism is obviously much greater at night. We have no wish ... to see
an increase in drug parties on the hills'

"Public parks are closed at night ... Why do (the Government) believe
that what is right in towns is not right in the countryside?". 

"How do walkers get to (open country) if they do not go by 4x4
vehicles?"

'People can get into serious trouble in the open country in a way that does
not happen on clearly marked rights of way' 

'If a mist or a fog comes down in a remote place where people have the right
to roam they may lose their way and could have accidents. We should accept
the amendment in the interests of some of the people with a right to roam'

'We are terrified of people trampling lawfully all around our houses in the
dark. We can only assume it is for some not good purpose'
Answer:
'Points have been raised about crime and policing. It beggars belief that
someone who intends to burgle a house will not do so because it would mean
trespassing on the way to the house'

'Stapleton sought to gain refuge in Grimpen Mire. However, he was swallowed
up by the mire because he became lost in the night. The point that new
dangers will arise is extremely valid'
quoting "Hound of the Baskervilles" a work of fiction I believe !

"We are sending many young people to almost certain death in the Snowdon area"

compiled from posting to uk.rec.walking