NEWS: Honister Zipwire Rejected - Again

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 UKH News 09 Jan 2013
Fleetwith Pike, Cumbria, 3 kbA proposal to build a zip wire on Fleetwith Pike has been turned down today by planners in the Lake District

Read more at http://www.ukhillwalking.com/news/item.php?id=67730
 andyb211 09 Jan 2013
In reply to UKH News: I'd love to know why Bonners is supporting the zipwire when he blasted me for bolting a couple of rock routes in |Tafraoute Valley in Morocco, duplicitous Sir Chris?
 Michael Ryan 10 Jan 2013
In reply to UKH News:

It would be interesting to hear Sir Chris's opinion on the zip-wire proposal.

There is a lot going on in the Lakes at the moment, what with the nuclear waste disposal plans in Ennerdale.

I can also hear the cries of hypocrisy from the supporters of the Honister Zipwire as the Lake District National Park increases their own commercial activity at the National Park Centre at Brockhole:

Hoteliers lash 'unfair' competition as Brockhole masterplan is unveiled

See: http://tinyurl.com/bfh92k9

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Plans include:

* an indoor venue for weddings and other functions for up to 500;

* an ‘outdoor event’ space for up to 5,000;

* a watersports centre complete with a new lake and building for staff and equipment;

* a hostel for visitors; and

* a lakeside education classroom.

Mr Denby, who runs South Lakes Hotels, said it was not the job of the LDNPA to run commercial activities in competition with local businesses and called for the authority to consider selling off Brockhole.

“It is being subsidised to the tune of £300,000 a year and more public money is being pumped in to pay for the redevelopment. It puts the centre at an unfair advantage.”

Thomas Noblett, who runs the Langdale Chase Hotel, claimed a wedding venue at Brockhole would end up ‘looting the business’ from other hotels.

ENDS

Mick
 nbonnett 10 Jan 2013
In reply to Mick Ryan - UKC and UKH:

Typical National Park Authority , bugger local jobs and business's but at the same time line their own pockets .
summitmonkeys 11 Jan 2013
In reply to andyb211: Sad to say that Sir Chris's support for this (crazy commercial exploitational) project has taken my respect for him down quite a few notches
 Colin Wells 12 Jan 2013
In reply to nbonnett:
> (In reply to Mick Ryan - UKC and UKH)
>
> Typical National Park Authority , bugger local jobs and business's but at the same time line their own pockets .

Just for your info: The National Park Authority Planning Officers actually recommended the proposal go ahead (which, incidentally, I don't agree with).

The authority members voted against it in no small measure because (although you wouldn't guess it from the media coverage) there is a considerable amount of opposition to it from locals (both Borrowdale and Buttermere Parish Councils are against), not just conservation groups.

Given that the Government are on record as supporting the principle of local decision making when it comes to planning issues, you could argue the Authority Members are merely reflecting the democratic wishes of the folk most likely to be directly affected by the development.

The only people benefiting financially remain the Honister operation who are making considerable amounts of money already without the need for further contentious attractions (£39.50 per head to be 'guided' along CROW access land, up to 10 in a group, often half a dozen parties through in a day, all year round operation...)
 gsum 17 Jan 2013
In reply to UKH News: Good news. It's hard to imagine a more inappropriate proposal for this area. Bonners seems to have lost his marbles.
In reply to UKH News: Chris Bonington is talking about the zip wire on today's You and Yours on BBC Radio 4: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pw38x
In reply to UKH News: On right now

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