Green Laner
Joined: 28 Apr 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 17
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We all suffer when Green Lanes are closed by various authorities but finally LARA has started action against the YDNP over the recent closures of assorted lanes. The following was seen on several other forums so I've copied it here in case you haven't seen it. They need money to do this so please read on then donate if you can!
The Motoring Organisations’ Land Access and Recreation Association (LARA) takes the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to the High Court over the decision to put permanent prohibition of motors orders on eight unsealed roads.
The use of ‘recreational motor vehicles’ on unsealed roads in the Yorkshire Dales National Park has been a contentious issue for many years. The Yorkshire Dales Trail Management Advisory Group (with members from a wide range of organisations) recommended a package of traffic control measures, each tailored to the specific situation of an initial set of eight routes:
* Street Gate to Arncliffe Cote
* Harber Scar Lane, Stockdale Lane
* The Highway
* Old Ing to Cam End via Ling Gill
* Gorbeck Road
* Horton Road
* Cam High Road
After two rounds of wide public consultation, but not based on evidence, the Access Committee of the National Park Authority resolved in April 2008 to ignore its own officers’ original recommendations, and to put full-time, permanent motor traffic prohibition orders on all these routes. LARA took Counsel’s advice on the validity of the National Park Authority’s decision and, consequent upon this has made an application to the High Court to have the orders quashed on eight grounds, including straightforward non-compliance with statutory requirements.
LARA’s Member Organisations are not opposed to necessary and proportionate traffic regulation on unsealed roads, and actively pursue this in many places across Britain. The decision of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority rides roughshod over a great deal of hard work in finding a workable solution that allows motorists to share what is only a very small proportion of the National Park’s unsealed rights of way.
The issues identified by LARA’s legal team are applicable to almost all traffic regulation order cases, and clarifying and establishing the legal and procedural requirements that bind highway authorities will have a value way beyond the boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales.
Fighting this case is very expensive, win or lose. Everyone involved in motor sport and recreation is asked to visit LARA’s website and make a donation to the Fighting Fund.
For further information about LARA visit www.laragb.org, or to make a donation to the Fighting Fund, please visit http://www.laragb.org/p-u-pages/donate.html
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NoDo$h
Joined: 02 May 2006
Location: Dodging peanuts
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Donation sent   Going, going...... Gone!
Carbon footprint? I neither know nor give a damn
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Snowy
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
Location: At the end of my tether
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Donation made via PayPal If you are annoying me, just remember it takes 42 muscles for me to frown and only 4 to extend my middle finger, and I'm lazy so don't be offended.
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TazDaz
Joined: 07 May 2007
Location: South East Essex
Posts: 1518
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PayPal donation made to the LARA Fighting Fund
Hope it's successful 
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 8:10pm |
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monkey hanger
Joined: 17 Jan 2008
Location: London
Posts: 247
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donation sent "its probably a virus, you'll be right as rain in a few days and if you're playing sport try to favour the other leg"
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 8:21pm |
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MrH
Joined: 08 Aug 2007
Location: In a world of my own...
Posts: 956
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Donation made - good look to LARA Formerly Disconutter
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| Fri Jul 04 2008 8:33pm |
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philhunt
Joined: 16 Sep 2007
Location: MI5 not 9 to 5
Posts: 396
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Will certainly make a donation and publish a link to the fighting fund on some other LR / 4x4 sites I frequent
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