Hi

I have been following the development of the Go Ape facility with interest. I am a keen mountain biker living in Adlington and frequent Lever Park and the surrounding moor land at least twice a week.

I have found United Utilities anti-mountain biking stance quite hypocritical when they are encouraging developments like Go-Ape and doing nothing to address the issues of motor bike & 4 wheel drive access or the prevailing ‘scallies’ who are building fires and dropping litter all over the place!

Whilst I understand that some of the illegal routes taken by mountain bikes are causing damage and are potentially dangerous I believe that a programme of dedicated bike trail building in some lesser used areas of wood and moorland (e.g. wilderswood, moses cocker plantation, the plantation between the school and wilderswood or healy nab) would benefit all by providing challenging terrain for the bikers and spreading the impact on the moor sensitive and over-used area of the park.

I would be interested to hear what your views are on the above and your stance on mountain biking in the area in general.

Best regards.

James

James has set up a Facebook group called ‘Save Mountain Biking in Rivington’.

What do you think? Let everyone know by posting a comment or using the forum.

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