How is a footpath reinstated?

Q. I am under the impression that anyone who ploughs up a right of way has two weeks to re-instate. Is this correct? If it is, how is it enforced, when a perfectly good grass field is now just a mass of earth?

Janet Spooner, Rudgwick

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