Tales from a National Park!

[skyhuck]

Strange that, I thought the LDNPA where charged with managing the park for the benefit of all. Unless the people that created the views and manage the man made landscape are accommodated, then the loss of knowledge built up over generations will continue.

Tourism brings in the most money, but if the farmers, foresters, dry stone wallers, quarrymen etc cannot carry on their day to day existence with minimal hindrance, then the average age will continue to rise, die out and you can all come and look at a derelict landscape.

But hey, in the end the trees will reclaim the fells and it may become a wilderness again.

 

Surely here the interests of the locals and the national interests are the same, so hopefully the decisions made will benefit both.

[elfinwood saws]

zip wires and dry bobsleigh runs are the sort of things they should have at Honister,not everyone is a rambler![ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp3dKxPYeug&feature=related]Alpine Slide Near Neuschwanstein Castle - YouTube[/ame]

[treedave]

Surely here the interests of the locals and the national interests are the same, so hopefully the decisions made will benefit both.

 

I'd like to agree with you, but the "national interest" is a phrase often used by pressure groups to pursue their version of reality. There are a great number of such groups that oppose developments such as the honister zip. I leads to a feeling that they would like to keep everything as it is, locally known as living in aspic.

Unfortunately this is directly opposed to the need for the local economy to diversify and develop. I've no doubt there is no way that a new slate quarry would be allowed in the park, yet the old ones have created some amazing places and local history.

Nothing new, but sometimes it feels like a very high price to pay for helping to look after the landscape that the pressure groups find so precious.

[Len Brennan]

Where do you live?

 

For twenty years I lived within quarter of a mile of the lake, I now live about three miles from it. Does that give me the right to comment?

[Hodge]

For twenty years I lived within quarter of a mile of the lake, I now live about three miles from it. Does that give me the right to comment?

 

Yes it does Len. Everyone is entitled to there opinion.

Edited October 26, 2011 by Hodge1
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[born2trot]

Watched the program tonight.

My wife and I felt there was a real lack of youth representation and input.

Very sad story though.