We are blessed to have the spectacular Peak District on our doorstep. Plans are still afoot to drive a by-pass deep into the Peak District starting in Longendale, this would have a devastating effect on the unspoilt natural beauty of the area. The building of this by-pass is opposed by most people with the exception of some of the villagers who live in Longendale and Tintwistle. Their lives are made miserable by the constant traffic, especially the HGV’s which rumble up and down the A57/A628 day and night, but other alternatives are available. The disused Woodhead rail route could be reinstated and used to convey HGV’s between the M67 and the M1 close to Sheffield. Most lorries passing through Mottram, Longendale and Tintwistle only do so as a short cut between these two motorways.The images above are literature from a group called Friends of the Peak District. Their website can be viewed here. Membership is only £24 per year and if you feel passionately about the Peak District as I do I think it is an organisation worth joining.
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Not if the Labour government had anything to do with it, they would build and continue to build on green belt.
Yes, we are lucky to have the Peaks so close by. Apart from anything else it's usually somewhere you can be away from the pathologies of the urban areas - so imagine my susprise upon my first visit to Dovedale last Sunday, a spot well enough away from large conurbations to discourage the aimless I'd have thought, to find that at least half the visitors were Muslims: families, old men, beefy young blokes with bushy beards jogging ala mission training. Lots of 'em. Very unnerving.
Anyone know what draws them there?
Get it concreted and built on ready for the next Tsunami of foreign subhuman scroungers shipped in by our insane rulers.
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