In reply to mikej:
Hi mikej,
Hope your well. Thanks for completing the survey.
As stated in my reply to The Ivanator I would not expect disturbance by rock climbing to be of any concern to statutory nature conservation organisation as most roosts will be transitory in nature and thus disturbance would be unlikely to effect the conservation status of any bat species (this is the criteria it would be assessed against by any SNCO). Its also certainly been my experience of dealing with SNH, NRW and NE that they usually take a pragmatic approach.
The purpose of question 5 is to give me an idea of geographic spread of this use and ideally have look at rock type etc based on the responses. Happy for people to exclude route names if this is still of concern.
Drop me an email if you want to discuss further.
Cheers
MIke