Peak Park HGV ban protest

The Save Swal­low’s Wood Cam­paign held a protest on Fri­day 14th Octo­ber out­side the nation­al park author­i­ty head­quar­ters in (Aldern House, Bakewell).

Peak Dis­trict Nation­al Park Author­i­ty mem­bers were greet­ed by local cam­paign­ers who are urg­ing them to recon­sid­er their sup­port for the A628 bypass and sup­port instead an HGV ban.
A pre­lim­i­nary study into the poten­tial for an HGV ban has been com­mis­sioned by the Cam­paign to Pro­tect Rur­al Eng­land. The study, com­piled by inde­pen­dent trans­port pro­fes­sions MRTU (the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Trans­port Research Unit, con­clud­ed that the HGV ban would bring sig­nif­i­cant ben­e­fits to jus­ti­fy the costs, even with­out tak­ing into con­sid­er­a­tion the spe­cial char­ac­ter­is­tics of the Nation­al Park Land­scape.