In an ideal world everybody would play nicely.Putting gates, signs, concreting things up isn't conservation minded - shit in somewhere will be gone eventually, knocking off chunks of rock and drilling holes is forever.
Locking the track gate won't eliminate the problem. A significant proportion of the 'non-caver' visitors walk down from Mam Nick over the fields.The coded gate at top of track could be most successful ploy, provided landowner was happy with that, but it probably wouldn't take long for thieves to find out the number.
Citation needed! I'm a young (ish) person and have received shed loads of support from the BCA. I was invited, by another young (ish) person in the BCA, to take a very involved participatory role. That being said I do think the "soft" measures of making parking harder etc should be thoroughly explored before even considering major engineering works to the entrance!The BCA is outright hostile to participation by young people
People joining BCA is not the same as people willing to do admin work for the BCA. Gated systems of access have broken down where nobody is left or cares anymore which is one of many reasons the Derbyshire Key is so goodLatter point has also been discussed numerous times on this forum. Someone would need to do some number crunching on average BCA years of membership, but it doesn't need that many joining to maintain current levels.
Citation needed!
I appreciate that, and am genuinely grateful for your 7 years of voluntary work, but the BCA is the people who run it. I don't get a vote on council, and I don't want one, my effort is best employed in implementation and operation, but I've never once been told to do anything conservative, anti-change, or anti-youth by anyone in the organisation.Ari I was on BCA council for about 7 years. BCA wants young people to do grunt work and fix things but it is fundamentally a deeply conservative organisation resistant to any sort of change. Took us like half a decade to get a new website lol