Bottlebank
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TheBitterEnd said:Bottlebank said:My club has at least one successful dig that I'm aware of that had to be sealed on completion as a condition of permission to dig as the landowner didn't want more cavers visiting.
Does that not strike you as a very selfish thing to do? Surely if that was the landowner's requirement then it would be better to just walk away and come back in a few decades when the land has changed hands or his attitudes have changed.
Not really. I wasn't involved but to me it seems a reasonable request from the landowner, given his concerns, and whilst not ideal at least allowed some new exploration to take place. Hopefully one day we'll be allowed to open it to the wider caving world.
I could argue it's selfish of people to vote for CRoW whilst ignoring the effects on digging and other non CRoW activities simply to gain access to a few of the few caves we currently don't have access to - caves that in many cases they'll probably only visit once if at all!
I'd like to see people thinking about the future of caving as a whole, not just from their own perspective.