Following the decision by the applicants for the Zipline to withdraw their planning application, the Friends of the Lake District made a Freedom of Information Request which has now been published by the Lake District Nation Park.
Grough has recently published the details of the application process and the opposing and supporting responses.
The following is a quote from the Grough report.
”Among organisations opposing plans were: Friends of the Lake District; Campaign for National Parks; National Trust; Campaign for the Protection of Rural England; Open Spaces Society; Federation of Cumbria Commoners; British Mountaineering Council; Wainwright Society; Ramblers Lake District Area; Achille Ratti Climbing Club; Fylde Mountaineering Club; WalkLakes; Fell and Rock Climbing Club; John Muir Trust; Woodland Trust; Sustainable Keswick; Grasmere Village Society; Dartmoor Preservation Society; North Yorkshire Moors Association and the Wordsworth Trust.
Support for Treetop Trek’s plans came from Cumbria Chamber of Commerce; Lake District Estates, Mountain Training Trust and Plas y Brenin National Mountain Sports Centre and Newlands Activity Centre.”
It is difficult to see how the Mountain Training Trust and Plas y Brenin could support the application, when the BMC and other significant mountaineering bodies decided that they should oppose the proposal.
I believe that both the MTT and PyB should explain themselves to the mountaineering community as I believe their response seems to be at odds with the thoughts of the wider mountaineering community.
Stewart Mackenzie
