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Newsletter April 2025
UNESCO vs. green lane motoring: will the LDNPA step up?
Dirt track Lake District: a European off-road network
Danger in Little Langdale
A landmark legal victory
World Heritage Watch: we rock the boat
An expert assessment green lane driving and World Heritage status

Newsletter October 2024
Gavin Capstick takes over as CEO at the Lake District National Park and a new vision for regenerative tourism from National Parks UK
Only 6% of the total land area of National Parks is currently managed effectively for nature - an interview with Ruth Bradshaw from the Campaign for National Parks
The conservation gap: why the Lake District falls behind its near neighbours, the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District
Monitoring green lanes: the dilemma of choice
Lonnings, corpse roads and green lanes

Newsletter April 2024
HIgh Nibthwaite to Parkamoor - a historic track gets mangled p. 1
A Norwegion lesson for the Lake District p. 3
The Tilberthwaite group reports - now we need a reset p. 6
Back to basics on tranquillity and quiet enjoyment in National Parks p. 9

Newsletter September 2021
Before COP26: p. 1
The 1969 Guide to the Lake District National Park p.3
Green lane motoring and the disabled p.3
Best practice from the Peak District p.3
An interview with Bill Birkett p.4

Newsletter September 2023
UNESCO: new concerns about green lanes p. 1
Learning from the Peak District? p.4
Invasive Pandas p.5
Green lanes and water pollution p.6
George Cubiss on 70 years of walking in the Lakes p. 8

Newsletter July 2021
Act now to protect green lanes: leading scientists write to the LDNPA p. 1
UNESCO, Liverpool and the Lake District p. 3
Whataboutism – the LDNPA’s killer argument p. 4
The Tilberthwaite Management Group p. 4
Green Lanes in a World Heritage Landscape p. 5
www.ldnpa.blog p.7
Lord (Frank) Judd, Green Lanes advocate 1935 – 2021 p.7

Newsletter April 2023
Does the LDNPA have an ecology problem? p. 1
The soundscape of the National Park p.5
Five years after: the second letter to UNESCO p.5
The view from the North East p.9

Newsletter November 2022
Understanding the LDNPA p. 1
Current TROs in the Lake District p. 3
Tilberthwaite Management Group – update p. 4
If stones could weep p. 5
The supposed economic benefits of off-roading p. 8

Newsletter April 2021
UNESCO ignored p. 1
The Partnership Management Group p. 3
The sustainable use of green lanes p. 4
National Parks in North America and Europe p.5
Ruskin’s insights for today p. 6
Douglas Worrall – green lanes pioneer p. 8

Newsletter February 2021
The M6 fault line p. 1
TROs in the Peak District p. 2
Little Langdale: a centre for green lane driving p.4
Off-roading in Wordsworth’s landscape p. 5

Newsletter July 2022
A glimmer of hope? p.1
Westmorland/Furness and Cumberland: green lanes in the new unitary authorities p.2
Green lanes and the disabled p.4
The eye of the beholder? p.5
Paul Truelove 1941 – 2021 p.8

Newsletter March 2022
The Defra consultation p. 1
The LDNPA’s Position Statement on green lanes p. 2
…and how they did it in the Yorkshire Dales p.4
White moles and green lanes in Little Langdale p. 5

Newsletter December 2020
2020: new off-road traffic peaks p. 1
LDNPA restructuring p. 2
Mary Shaw: Bletchley Girl and green lanes advocate p. 2
Breast High Road p. 4
TROs in the Yorkshire Dales National Park p. 4
A view from Istanbul p. 6
Watch dusk fall over the Langdale Pikes p. 6

Newsletter October 2020
The judicial review p. 1
A new type of 4x4 p. 3
The Hierarchy of Trail Routes (with illustrations!) p. 3

Newsletter December 2021
The former Director of Conservation in the Peak District on tranquillity p. 1
The Lake District National Park on tranquillity p. 3
The Environment Act 2021 p. 3
When the facts change p.4
What evidence? The impact of motor vehicles on fell tracks and nature p. 4
Electric cars: the solution to all our problems? p. 6

Newsletter August 2020
Gamblesmire Lane p. 1
Lockdown and vehicle numbers p. 3
A National Park for everybody – but not for everything p. 4
Cumbria County Council selected for landscape recovery pilot scheme p. 5
Ambleside Action for a Future p. 5
SLDC’s Climate Conversation p. 6

Newsletter July 2020
After the lockdown p. 1
High Nibthwaite (U5051) p. 2
Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) in the Lake District p. 3
Beatrix Potter the environmental pioneer: a new biography p. 4

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