The Extent Of Access Rights
Access rights apply to most land and inland water in Scotland. However, a number of areas of land are excluded, these include:
- Non-residential buildings and associated land, and structures
- Houses and sufficient adjacent land to provide reasonable privacy
- Land around any school and used by the school
- Compounds, building sites
- Sports and playing fields when in use
- Land developed or set out for particular recreational purposes
- Grassland growing for hay and silage which is at such a
late stage of growth that it is likely to be damaged by exercise of access rights. - Land in which crops have been sown or are growing (although please note that the headrigs, endrigs and other margins of fields where crops are growing are not defined as crops, whether sown or unsown, and are therefore within access rights)
For more information please see the Scottish Outdoor Access Code.
There is, however, an exception to these exclusions and this occurs if the route in question is a Right of Way. To find out more about Rights of Way in Scotland visit http://www.scotways.com/.
