[Closed] surrey hills investment is it happening

Thought the investment is to find oil reserves

well there is that too... no there was something about alot of money being granted to the redlands group or something and that some of it was lottery money. As I say it was mentioned in dirt... and a couple of guys I have met out on the trails have mentioned it? the dirt article, part of their section about riding in the southeast, said 'big things are about to happen'?

Are you talking about the development of [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/now-barry-knows-better-1 ]Barry Knows Best[/url]?

Hi dogmatix if they have it may only be able to use it
on the National Trust land as most of the land is split up
on private ownership.

Two different things - some money has been put in by Surrey Hills AONB for the new ending to BKB. This has been topped-up by the Hurtwood side and the objective is to make a more sustainable finale to the most popular and well used trail on the Hurtwood. This is going ahead right now.

The other money story is to do with much wider potential investment throughout Surrey Hills, some of which [i]might[/i] include mountain bike specific initiatives - notably to ease pressure which occurs when fast-moving bikes come into close contact with people on foot or horseback, and also to fix some spots where trail erosion and creep are getting out of hand. National Trust are very much engaged with this idea, as (I think) are FC and SCC. That's three out of four key land owners on Leith… Hurtwood is more straightforward because it doesn't have the interwoven patches of land under different ownership and management that Leith does.

ahhh ok... I had heard about the BKB stuff but the article seemed to talking about much bigger stuff... It sounded like lot of money was going to be spent and big things (i was assuming either big development to current trails or new trials) were going to happen. Seems like dirt or the person writing the extract in dirt must have got it wrong.