DEFRA has announced that the 2026 cut-off date for recording historic rights of way will be removed. But what does it all mean; is it good news or could it be bad news? According to a DEFRA spokesperson: “As we have recognised in our 25 Year Environment Plan, public access is key to connecting people […]
Cut Gate: One Year On
It’s been a year since the work to sort out the boggiest bits of Cut Gate was started and since the slabs and clapper bridges went down, literally thousands of riders have enjoyed riding a path which for a big part of the year was out of bounds due to the weather. It feels like […]
The BHF Peak District Mountain Bike Challenge is back – and we need your help
The British Heart Foundation are returning to the Peak District on Saturday 2nd April 2022, and as always we’re working with them to make the event a success. Our work with the BHF began a few years ago when they asked us for route advice, and since then we’ve helped to provide marshals and sweepers […]
Cave Dale: DCC responses, agrees to halt, Petition over 800
Proposed work on Cave Dale has been halted until further plans and consultation are done, thanks to Peak District MTB and our followers. Following action taken on Pin Dale by Derbyshire County Council (DCC) and following a week of emails, late on Friday DCC agreed to pause activity. On Friday morning we pushed for more […]
Pin Dale, DCC and the elusive plans for Cave Dale?
As many mountain bikers take the opportunity to ride Cave Dale before an unknown amount of maintenance work by Derbyshire County Council (DCC) commences and just over a week on from their halting work on Pin Dale, we try to work out what lies ahead. Firstly, we understand DCC have been given approval and started […]
Pin Dale : Derbyshire County Council responds, halts work
Following our short but intense campaign calling for a halt to Derbyshire County Council’s surfacing work on Pin Dale and properly qualified assessment of the materials used, Derbyshire County Council (DCC) have responded as follows: “Before work started we consulted and agreed with the Peak Park, Natural England and Historic England that a specific locally-sourced […]
Alarming work on Pin Dale by Derbyshire County Council
As we previously reported, Derbyshire County Council (DCC) have planned maintenance work on multiple Peak District trails this winter and provided an indication of the nature of the work based their site visits with Peak District Local Access Forum (LAF), though further details from DCC were not forthcoming. Extremely concerning work has now been done […]
Government respond to Glover Landscapes review
The Government today published its response to the Glover Landscapes review. You can read their response here. This is important for mountain biking in the Peak District since an objective of the Glover report was to review access. Currently around 11% of the Peak District rights of way network is open to bicycles, compared to the national […]
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