Trust is criticised for ‘jumping the gun’
Last updated 11:36, Monday, 12 May 2008
IT took a lot of bottle to create a boardwalk footpath over marsh land at a Lake District beauty spot.
But now the National Trust has come in for criticism from a Lake District National Park planning committee member for starting to build the Derwentwater boardwalk before they had permission.
The boardwalk at the Borrowdale end of the lake near Keswick has been created from almost half a million recycled plastic bottles. Lake District planners accepted the scheme, but slammed the Trust for failing to apply for planning permission before work began.
Development Control Committee member Peter Phizacklea said: “I am tired of retrospective planning applications coming before us. This time it is the National Trust. If they can’t abide by the rules what chance have we got with others?”
Senior planner Dave McGowan described the boardwalk as a novel approach.
The old wooden boards which snaked across an area of wetland south west of the Lodore Falls Hotel have been replaced with the black recycled plastic.
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