Beauty spots around Settle were packed today. Friends of mine own the land around Stainforth Force and cannot close it off because a PF runs across it. The usual hordes leaving piles of rubbish, parking anywhere and everywhere. There simply aren’t sufficient police to hand out parking tickets.
I’m all for encouraging walkers to visit the beautiful part of the world where I live. A vocal minority of locals hate any outsiders arriving to enjoy their exercise but this is beyond a joke with crowds lining the riverbank, no toilet facilities, several cases of overnight camping and lots of local disruption for farmers trying to navigate their way with large machinery along narrow country lanes.
I dont have a solution apart from seizing their vehicles as most are parked illegally, and store them in a farmers field.
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