Update! Derbyshire County Council – halts ‘repairs’ at Pin Dale!

Robert Largan, MP for High Peak has taken time out from lying low and pretending that Boris Johnson doesn’t really have anything to do with him to post this on FB:
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<div dir=”auto”>Lots of Hope Valley residents have been contacting me about maintenance work on Pindale bridleway above Hope and Castleton.</div>
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<div dir=”auto”>Despite assurances given to local access groups by the Council, the materials being used for the work are not in keeping with the area (see below).</div>
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<div dir=”auto”>The local trail used for walking, running, and mountain biking forms part of the Peak District’s protected landscapes.</div>
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<div dir=”auto”>I contacted Derbyshire County Council, urging them to halt all further works on the ground to prevent further damage to the paths whilst this is investigated.</div>
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<div dir=”auto”>They have now agreed to halt the works and resurface the bridleway with locally sourced limestone.</div>
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<div dir=”auto”>Thanks to everyone who flagged this with me!</div>
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<div dir=”auto”>https://www.facebook.com/RobertLargan4HighPeak/posts/1366861500434351</div>

Edit: that went well 🙁

oh dear

I think MTBers use “Cavedale” to mean this bit here, the actual gorge

However I think “Cavedale” more generically refers to the whole track along the top of that area. The bridleway bit is part of the Limestone Way long distance path so there’s a possibility that it comes under DCC as well rather than individual landowners along the route.

Tar from road planings will most likely leach into the surrounding ground, which makes it an utterly inappropriate surface for an SSSI, regardless or not of whether they dress it with limestone to make it look nice on top. The planings need to be disposed of in a safe way, which presumably costs more.

It’s not a question of aesthetics, if it were, DCC would have just ignored people telling them to stop it, like they normally do.

I wouldn’t use Farrow and Ball paint to undercoat my walls

Doesn’t mean you’d “recycle” used engine oil for the job either.

From Peak District MTB:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/PeakDistrictMTB/permalink/4716604615042922/

Is it just me, or isn’t there some sense in this from a sustainability perspective? Seems a bit precious to get worked up about an unfinished job. Effectively another chunk of a hillside somewhere nearby will need to be blown up, crushed and laid down as a thicker layer of limestone to appease those who saw the job halfway through. Nothing wrong with saving money in the name of sustainability. Maybe I’m missing something. I wouldn’t use Farrow and Ball paint to undercoat my walls,

The difference is that your undercoat will stay under the F&B coat. The whole surface and foundation of this will move and mix together. The water and traffic will mix it up so it just ends up as a semi grey semi black homogenous agglomeration.

I’m also deeply sceptical as to whether they were actually planning a top coat of grey until theg were busted.

On a tangent, am I right in saying this is the second thread on this?
If so, why didn’t it get closed like all other duplicate threads are? Btw230 has made an excellent point on the other thread which needs following up.

I’m pretty sure Peter White has retired recently.

Tar from road planings will most likely leach into the surrounding ground

Tar being something that has to be tested for during road works/demolition and disposed of correctly. Any road planings in recycled aggregate used these days will be bitumen based.

As someone who pays a lot of £££ of council tax in Derbyshire that is then repeatedly squandered, the incompetence of DCC is something only rivalled by the current occupant of No10 Downing Street.
They are perpetually hopeless.

I’ll give you a different example. The top of my road, about 500 yards away. On the Southern side of the Peaks. The road surface was mainly OK but with a few local pot holes, and 1 sections where sub-surface cracks were surfacing and actually needed cutting out and re-doing properly.
So what do we get…
1. Some (not all !) Pot holes patch filled.
2. Then sections of the road re-surfaced properly. But only a few sections. And missed out 30 yards between 2 resurfaced sections – the bit that needed it most. It took more effort to do 2 sections than combine it as 1.

Then… literally within 2 weeks of the proper new tarmac being laid… the morons chip-sealed it over. Leaving the road positively dangerous with all the loose chips at a T junction that was at the bottom of 2 fast downhill sections of road. And of course chip sealed over the non-repaired section that actually needed fixing in the 1st place.

They need sacking for that level of incompetence.

Doesn’t mean you’d “recycle” used engine oil for the job either

Fair enough, like the analogy.

Thanks for the link