Brough Lane, Bradwell Edge, MTB

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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Meeting with Derbyshire County Council re the Hope Valley Link

Two of the Peak District MTB Committee followed up on the recent news and consultation notice posted on Twitter and various other outlets by PDNPA regarding the proposed Hope Valley Link. Whilst their post was hitting the twitterverse asking for consultation on the PDNPA Wider Peak District Cycle Strategy, DCC personnel were on ground implementing […]

Peak District National Park – Wider Peak District Cycling Strategy.

We were fortunate to have had a meeting with Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) during their drafting of the Wider Peak District Cycle Strategy and as you will see from our earlier posts on the site, a major concern was the lack of reference to mountain biking. In fact, mountain bikes were mentioned only […]

Peak District National Park Authority response to our questions

We have had a written, formal response to the questions we outlined in the earlier post and it raises another raft of questions, it would be great to hear other riders’ questions and responses to this so we can keep this dialogue going and make the most of the open communications we have with PDNPA. […]