there’s a footpath near me across the very corner of some common land (total length maybe 150m, but avoids a busy main road and a junction), near some houses that used to suffer from this, with piles of branches and scrub just pulled across the path.
Fed up one day, I left a polite note explaining that while cycling or horse riding across this could potentially be construed as trespass, that’s a matter for the landowner to decide and to act upon. However, deliberate blocking of a public row is a criminal offence*, and potentially an offence with the potential to cause injury or harm, and I had reasonable evidence who was doing the blocking**, if it continued I’d be forced to report it to the police.
* is it? not sure, but I seem to recall it is.
** I had a rough idea but nothing that would be construed as evidence
The problem seems to have gone away…….