| Description | Minutes from the fourth meeting of the Central Advisory Water Committee Gathering Grounds Sub-Committee and papers circulated including: written evidence from Birmingham Corporation Water Department, Burnley Corporation, and the Swansea Corporation; a memorandum by the Rambler's Association on 'Access to Water Catchment Areas'; 'Possible Effects of Intensive Manuring during the War Years on the Yeo and Chedder Reservoirs'; 'Informal Notes on the progress of the Gathering Grounds Sub-Committee'; 'Proposed Additional Questions to Water Undertakers'; verbatim reports of oral evidence by H Symonds and T Stephenson on behalf of the Councils for the Preservation of Rural England and Rural Wales and their Standing Committee on National Parks, the Commons, Open Spaces and Footpath Preservation Society, the Friends of the Lake District and the Caravan Club; extracts of evidence relating to footpaths and access submitted to the National Parks; a memorandum by the National Farmers Union 'Footpaths and Access to Mountains'; and a printed pamphlet 'Public Use of Reservoir Lands and Waters'. |