In response to Jay Clock:
In your opinion I have posted to the wrong forum – can you forgive a newbie?
Wow! Your comments cannot be further from the truth: I don’t buy newspapers; I am not a career politician/local govt type person – I am a freelance secretary/pa.
You quote "Residents, visitors and users are being hijacked" and "scare-mongering conservationists" – you clearly do not keep abreast of current affairs so let me enlighten you:
“Conservationists Warn of Threat to National Parks” - Guardian 12 Nov 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environme...ionists-warn-threat-national-parks?CMP=twt_fd
Lake District, Norfolk Broads and New Forest 'could be lost due to budget cuts' - The Telegraph – 15 November 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...-Forest-could-be-lost-due-to-budget-cuts.html
Letter from Minister Richard Benyon in response to above article - The guardian 16 November 2010
http://t.co/6XsvjVo
National parks don’t need expensive bureaucrats – The Telegraph 17 November 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...al-parks-dont-need-expensive-bureaucrats.html
After reading these, maybe you have the right to an informed opinion, but don’t put somebody down just because you can (as a Senior Member of this forum). As you are “someone without mastery of the impenetrable jargon” may I explain it in little words for you?
National Parks are protected by legislation i.e. SSSI’s, AONB’s etc.
It is the unelected members of national park authorities who decide where you can and can’t cycle for pleasure. The Defra consultation is a means of restoring the balance so that national park authority members are directly elected by residents.
Now, wouldn’t you prefer to know that the decision-makers (who tell you where you can cycle) are held to account in the same way as you hold your Parish, District, County councillors – by having the right not to elect them again?
Here is the link to the Defra consultation which I omitted in my original post
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/nationalpark-governance/index.htm
Sue
In your opinion I have posted to the wrong forum – can you forgive a newbie?
Wow! Your comments cannot be further from the truth: I don’t buy newspapers; I am not a career politician/local govt type person – I am a freelance secretary/pa.
You quote "Residents, visitors and users are being hijacked" and "scare-mongering conservationists" – you clearly do not keep abreast of current affairs so let me enlighten you:
“Conservationists Warn of Threat to National Parks” - Guardian 12 Nov 2010
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environme...ionists-warn-threat-national-parks?CMP=twt_fd
Lake District, Norfolk Broads and New Forest 'could be lost due to budget cuts' - The Telegraph – 15 November 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ea...-Forest-could-be-lost-due-to-budget-cuts.html
Letter from Minister Richard Benyon in response to above article - The guardian 16 November 2010
http://t.co/6XsvjVo
National parks don’t need expensive bureaucrats – The Telegraph 17 November 2010
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/...al-parks-dont-need-expensive-bureaucrats.html
After reading these, maybe you have the right to an informed opinion, but don’t put somebody down just because you can (as a Senior Member of this forum). As you are “someone without mastery of the impenetrable jargon” may I explain it in little words for you?
National Parks are protected by legislation i.e. SSSI’s, AONB’s etc.
It is the unelected members of national park authorities who decide where you can and can’t cycle for pleasure. The Defra consultation is a means of restoring the balance so that national park authority members are directly elected by residents.
Now, wouldn’t you prefer to know that the decision-makers (who tell you where you can cycle) are held to account in the same way as you hold your Parish, District, County councillors – by having the right not to elect them again?
Here is the link to the Defra consultation which I omitted in my original post
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/nationalpark-governance/index.htm
Sue