Traffic Regulation Order consultation, Hollinsclough Rakes, please take part
Staffordshire is at last consulting on a Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) to close Swan and Limer Rakes to motor vehicles. Please support the TRO by emailing trafficregulationorderobjections@staffordshire.gov.uk by 7 February and quoting reference HoCPS/TM/TR34/23. Details of the TRO are at Read More…
Calling Time on Off-roading
The Green Lanes Environmental Action Movement has published a detailed account the public nuisance and environmental damage being done by offroading. Calling Time on Off-roading is illustrated throughout with photographs and spells out how and why current legislation is failing Read More…
Defra is to take action on green lanes.
Following its inclusion of questions about green lanes in the public consultation on its response to the Glover Landscapes Review, Defra says it is going to identify green lanes that are unsuitable for motor vehicle use and seek agreement from Read More…
Seasonal TRO planned for Moscar Cross Road
Sheffield City Council has agreed to put a seasonal Traffic Regulation Order (TRO) on Moscar Cross Road. This is a Byway Open to All Traffic in the Peak Park on the edge of Sheffield in the Parish of Bradfield. We Read More…
Government consulting on banning off-roading! Please take part
The Government’s public consultation on the Glover Landscapes Review includes questions about stopping off-roading on green lanes by 4x4s and motor bikes. We urge you to please take part in the consultation. This chance to stop off-roading may not come Read More…
Outrage at Bamford Clough tarmac
Bamford Clough was closed for many years due to off-roader damage which exposed a live electricity cable. DCC’s solution? Tarmac. Horse riders are outraged as the route is a 1:4 hill and tarmac on such a steep slope is very Read More…
Highway Code consultation
The Department for Transport has been consulting on proposed changes to the Highway Code designed to improve safety for vulnerable road users. PDGLA has responded to say that the Code should make it clear that the Highway Code applies to Read More…
Over Haddon to Youlgreave to be bridleway
Good news. A public inquiry into the Byway Open to all Traffic (BOAT) claim on the track between the Lathkill in Over Haddon and Back Lane in Youlgreave has decided that the route is a bridleway. The BOAT claim was Read More…
Callow Bank now a bridleway
Callow Bank (Parish of Hathersage) is now a bridleway. A public inquiry into the rights of way on it was held at the beginning of October. The bridleway decision came in within a matter of weeks. Such a quick decision Read More…
Wetton TRO now in force
The Peak Park Traffic Regulation Order prohibiting use of the green lane at Wetton Hills by recreational motor vehicles (4x4s, quad bikes, motorised trail bikes) came into force on 8 November. Well done Peak Park.