The Hope Valley Link is intended to complement a Sustrans signed Sheffield to Manchester route across the Peak District National Park by providing a new off-road section between Hathersage and Castleton. We reported earlier this year on phase I of this project and the fact that it was unfortunately too late to influence those works. […]
British Heart Foundation lends its voice to our cause
Many of the members of Peak District MTB are keen participants in the British Heart Foundation (BHF) Peak District Ride. We contacted the BHF to better understand if the works currently being undertaken by DCC on the high moorland trails would have any effect upon the event in the future. The response was quite unequivocal: […]
Whinstone Lee Tor Resurfacing – UPDATE
Last week we posted some news on track resurfacing on Whinstone Lee Tor but there has been a little confusion about exactly where this maintenance will be taking place. To confirm, it is the footpath from Whinstone Lee Tor up towards the Salt Cellars, from grid reference SK198874 to SK196893. Being a footpath there is […]
Whinstone Lee Tor Resurfacing
The Whinstone Lee Tor permissive path that runs along Derwent Edge is to be resurfaced beginning mid-October. The land owner and farming tenant have commissioned Moors for the Future Partnership, based in Edale, to carry out the work on Moscar Moor along a 2.5km stretch which will be a combination of gritstone aggregate and pitching […]
Stanage Long Causeway – Talking Pays Dividends
A quick recap of the situation at Stanage and the Long Causeway: the starting position before anyone engaged with Derbyshire County Council (DCC) was that DCC saw the need to resurface the causeway along and up towards Stanage pole. This may have been the result of a Section 56 notice, but we have no confirmation. […]
Derbyshire County Council Rights of Way Maintenance Plan 2013/14
When we met with Derbyshire County Council last month we asked for details on the rights of way for which maintenance is scheduled. Peter White – the rights of way officer – confirmed that all maintenance for 2013/14 is underway and in most cases nearing completion, with the exception of Chapelgate which will be done […]
Derbyshire County Council meeting report
Earlier this month we met with a number of the highways and rights of way (RoW) team at Derbyshire County Council (DCC) with the intention of trying to understand how they operate and to answer a number of questions we wanted to ask. We have listed the questions and the answers in the link below, […]
Brough Lane closed and other works on rights of way
It seems that Derbyshire County Council are commencing work on a number of rights of way, a member has been up to Brough Lane where closure notices state that Brough Lane will be closed to all access except pedestrians from 24 Feb through to 16 March with an additional closure notice from 17 March through […]
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