I see that Walshaw Moor Estate has made a planning application to build a livestock building and a stone access track. How sensitive of them at this time. There are quite a few local objections and I gather that NE are a bit worried about this too. To be fair, as best I can make…
Category: Wuthering moors
And meanwhile, up in the hills…
I thought I ought to go and have a quick look. As you drive up the road, northwest, from the Pack Horse Inn you are on the route of the Pennine Way. On your left there is this sight… It doesn’t look very pretty does it? I looked over it for a while and didn’t…
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This is NE’s response to my FoI/EIR request of 10 March. The answer to Qu4a confirms the ongoing scale of the burning of blanket bog in the English uplands and the fact that it has been consented by NE. The answer to Qu 5 seems rather evasive to me. Qu10 – that’s a lot of…
What would you have liked to have asked? Wuthering Moors 44
This interview with the Chief Executive of Natural England is interesting in a way. It illustrates the tensions of pleasing one’s current political masters and living up to the mission that NE has had handed down by Parliament. Which direction to face? What would you have liked to hear him say? Here are some questions…
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This is the fourth blog today on the subject of burning of blanket bog (see here, here, and here). These were sparked (!) by the RSPB releasing data on the scale of the issue and calling for an end to the burning of blanket bog. There has been a little media coverage of this –…