RAMBLERS have welcomed a landmark legal appeal upholding public access rights at an estate within Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
The Lord President of the Court of Session, sitting with two other judges, found in favour of the national park’s argument that the owner of Drumlean Estate, near Aberfoyle, was unlawfully blocking members of the public from enjoying access rights.
Following complaints from members of the public that access to an area between Ben Venue and Loch Ard was being blocked by locked high gates, and after repeated attempts to resolve the issue with the owners directly, Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority issued an enforcement notice to the landowners to remove a number of physical barriers in 2013.