In article ,
Alan Gould wrote:

Vehicular access is not legally permitted on public footpaths.
If the Electricity Board have vehicular access to it, the path will be a
private carriageway for their own use only.

That is not true.

Most 'public footpaths' are actually rights of way, not highways
for the use of pedestrians only. The landowner can grant more or
less any vehicular access he wishes.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.