Lakes Laning Ban Threat Lifted??

[Otter]

This may be second hand news,

Just been over on "another forum", one of the members posted that he had beeen looking at BBC ceefax on Northeast local news and had seen that the LDNP Authority had pulled back from a total ban.

Anymore info anyone? I am off to surf the BBC website!

[HCR]

I have not heard anything, but if it is true then I hope the two letters I sent to the LDNPA access officer helped.

H

[Time Bandit]

Yep it's true, I heard a bit about it on Radio Carlisle yesterday morning, missed most of it 'cos I was half asleep still but got the gist of it and that was that the LDNPA had decided to drop the idea.

There was nowt on the local news on the telly nor in the local paper that I saw anyhow.

[graham]

Had a look on the bbc north news, cumbria, granada websites nothing there. Hope it is true.

[graham]

Any news on this yet?

[OldFart]

Originally posted by graham
Any news on this yet?

Loads......:p


And I'm suprised you aint noticed it yet :smart:

[graham]

Originally posted by OldFart


Loads......:p


And I'm suprised you aint noticed it yet :smart:

Come on then what is it and where do i find it.

[OldFart]

Originally posted by graham


Come on then what is it and where do i find it.


Try that other forum of ill repute you sometimes frequent :D

[theboatpainter]

Heres a link straight to the article click here (http://com2.runboard.com/bnorthwales4x4chat.fmainchat.t69)
Cheers John

[HCR]

And here is a newspaper article:

"By Ross Brewster

NATIONAL Park plans to ban off-road drivers from Lake District tracks have been branded a betrayal by a motoring organisation.

The Land Access and Recreation Association (Lara) says the proposals go against the spirit of a self-regulation partnership set up between off-road groups and the authority.

The national park claims the plans are not set in stone and says it has not banned any activity.

But its draft management plan, which has to go before the Government before it is passed, says recreational motor vehicles must be “prohibited” from driving on green lanes.

It says this will help stop erosion and stop the disturbance of wildlife.

The breakdown in relations could mean the end of The Hierarchy of Trail Routes scheme, the self-regulation partnership to monitor off-road motoring,

Lara spokesman Geoff Wilson, who is chairman of the Hierarchy of Trail Routes, said: “It doesn’t add up. Recreational vehicle users have successfully worked with the Park Authority to effectively manage use.

“They cannot be expected to continue doing so while the authority seeks to ban them.

“Such a policy is intimidating and conflict creating.”

He said the authority had not conducted any “objective analysis”.

“It is policy dictated by prejudice and not facts, and no one is safe from it,” he said. “Water skiers and power boaters were the first to be hounded out of the national park.

“That was by selfish groups and individuals who want the park only to themselves.”

Emma Dewhurst, National Park communications director, said off-road driving was a problem.

She claimed the partnership had enjoyed some success but there were still serious problems with erosion, irresponsible drivers.

She also said regular complaints were received about inappropriate vehicles on popular tracks and noise levels."

http://www.news-and-star.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=28475

H

[Hoodoo]

Check out http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2003/031209a.htm
Regards,

[HCR]

Taken from the link in the above post:

"The way we use our public rights of way has changed dramatically over the past hundred years.

The use made of them today is often inconsistent with the uses for which they were originally established - in many cases long before the internal combustion engine was invented. Over time, the process for acquiring rights for the use of modern vehicles has also become inappropriate and unsustainable."

Too right things have changed. A hundred years ago footpaths were for going to church and other local uses. I have a public right of way which runs up my drive and through my garden. This has a number of implications:

1. If a group of walkers wants to walk along this route and have a picnic in my garden they are perfectly entitled to do so

2. If I park my car on my drive I am causing an obstruction on a highway, an arrestable offence

3. Despite living half a mile away from my nearest neighbour, I cannot secure my property by locking my gate as I am, wait for it, obstructing a highway

This in no way fits in with the original and intended use of PROW so why should BOATs and RUPPs etc be held in a time warp when footpaths are allowed to evolve as people have begun to want them for recreation, not just going to church on sunday or driving their cattle from one place to another.

God bless rights of way and all those who sail in her.

H