On Saturday I was involved in a demonstration organised by the Right to Roam campaign at Scots Dyke, constructed in 1552 to delineate the border between Scotland and England. As one activist straddling the border put it, this foot has a right to be here, the other one doesn’t. The differences in access laws between…
Month: September 2023
The paragraph above is what is currently on the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park Authority (LLTNPA) website (see here). When the Board Papers for this meeting first appeared it was indicated that it would be ‘Live Streamed’ as usual. It was only when I logged on to the Board meeting at 9.50amn that there…
In June HIE claimed the funicular was perfectly safe On 09/06/2023, after being contacted by several Parkswatch readers, I wrote a letter (see here) raising safety concerns about the Cairn Gorm funicular to Stuart Black, Chief Executive Officer of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), who own it. On 21/06/2023, I received a reply not from…
Scotland National Parks and the Scottish Government If you want to understand why Scotland’s National Parks have achieved so little in the 20 years since they were created, you need look no further than successive Scottish Governments, both the Ministers responsible and the civil servants that have supported them. Instead of encouraging and empowering our…
{NB this post has been corrected following a comment below} The GR5/52 from Lake Geneva to the Mediterranean is about 650km long and crosses through two of France’s National Parks, the Vanoise and the Mercantour (and a number of other protected areas). Much of the lower parts of the route go through forest and I…
Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) announced that they had settled the three funicular court cases (see here) out of court four days after I had announced parkswatch was taking a break (see here). I am happy to admit Parkswatch got it wrong when we predicted (see here) and (here) that the court cases would end…