Yeah, but would it. That genie’s well and truly out of the bottle and trying to stop that number of users is nigh on impossible now. Particularly if antagonised to the point where we were to join forces and create a proper fuss about it. Hence why I’m still inclined to think that in the end it will be a compromise solution that they’ll have to offer, and why we should continue to do our bit by being reasonable about access when those areas are in use.
I dunno, it’s still their workplace. And we can’t play the ‘x years of unchallenged access and it becomes a ROW’ card because it’s not been unchallenged. It’s not like council or Crown Estate land where there’s a requirement to allow access or manage it for the local community.
I suspect a small number was tolerated, even when the Trolls were taking 30+ people out there in a group it was still the only group for miles around. Now you pop down in the evening and it’s as busy as Swinley (pre trail center).
OTOH the land must be worth a fortune, if the Army was to give it up it’d be to sell for housing and buy half of Scotland with the proceeds.