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Apparently the PDNP have enforced their notice and started the removal of the illegal works undertaken in Cressbrook Dale. I didn't believe the PDNP had the nerve or the teeth. Happy to be proved wrong.

Hopefully this will be an end to the sorry saga!

Hopefully followed by that matting on Midhope Moor!

They have also stopped illegal quarrying just south of Calver I am told. When I find information on this I will post on another thread.

It is good to see the PDNP finally finding some teeth and reacting to illegal situations. Hopefully, as stated, they will get the matting on Midhope Moor sorted out just as quickly.

I didn't realise that was still rumbling on. Has the landowner been ordered to remove it?

Article with some info here https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-about/news/current-news/peak-distr...

Thanks, but it's the matting on the moors I was asking about

https://www.derbyshiretimes.co.uk/news/environment/peak-district-national-p...

This??

Henry Folkard at the last Peak Area Meeting said that it had all been through the legal process and the landowner instructed to remove it, but no action had been taken for 3 months, hopefully the PDNP properly attribute the costs as tax payers should not be paying anything towards the removal of the matting.

That's the one!

Ta, good to hear

As a non-local could you please explain what this matting on the moor business is?

From what I remember... owner had put down miles of wide plastic matting to 'facilitate access'... to act as a cheap road/path for shooting parties. Proportedly temporary but been their for years so much that nature had started to grow through it meaning removal will be a bugger.

That's my understanding 

Here's a bit of old news about that plastic matting:
https://www.cprepdsy.org.uk/news/1/

The photo there is cropped a bit too tightly I think - this version gives you a better idea of it:

Thanks. Sounds like the mat layer is trying it on?

Thanks for that link I wasn't aware of that, or the plans, in the item following it, for Severn Trent Water to build new reservoirs in the upper Derwent valley. Thankfully dropped for the time being.

If in that area they're anything like around where I live, they might better spend their time (and our money) eliminating the leaks that allow so much water to p1$$ out in the first place.