Campaigners call for government to extend legal rights of countryside access to Britain’s underground wonders Cavers are calling for the government to extend the rights that allow access to mountains,moors, heaths and downs to the subterranean systems that lie beneath some of Britain’s best-known landscapes.
The failure to include caves in the right to roam legislation introduced in 2000 means that it can purchase weeks for people to glean the go-ahead to explore systems such as Gaping Gill in Yorkshire, and because permission needs to be obtained from landowners. Campaigners estimate the loss to the economy of trips foregone to be worth £2m-£3m a year in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Source: theguardian.com