Membership of the Alliance is invited from anyone who supports the following objectives:

  1. To campaign for the exclusion of motorised vehicles, driven or ridden for pleasure ('off-roaders'), from the green lanes of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. ('Green lanes' is used here to include bridleways, restricted byways, roads used as public paths, byways open to all traffic, and all unsealed tracks in the National Park and the AONB.)
  2. To argue that The National Park Authority's, and the AONB Authority's fundamental obligations to protect and enhance the natural beauty and the unique environments in their charge entail a strong presumption against off-roading. The Alliance holds that the National Park and the AONB should be maintained as areas of peace and tranquillity, in which recreational activities should be essentially quiet, non-destructive, and non-polluting. The Alliance also holds that the green lanes' historical and archaeological importance, and their importance for nature conservation, are further grounds for their protection.
  3. To press for the imposition of Traffic Regulation Orders, prohibiting the passage of off-roaders, on green lanes in the National Park and the AONB.
  4. To present arguments for making it illegal for vehicles other than those used in agriculture, used by the emergency services, or by landowners, tenants, and their bona fide visitors, to travel on highways other than those surfaced or resurfaced at public expense throughout their whole length within the last 20 years with the intention that they should be used by mechanically propelled vehicles in any weather condition.
  5. To record and publicise the damage to green lanes that is presently being caused by off-roading.
  6. To form alliances with groups in other parts of the country that have similar objectives.

Membership application form: detach here---------------------------------------------------

I/we support the objectives of the Yorkshire Dales Green Lanes Alliance and wish to be enrolled as an individual member/an affiliated group (delete as applicable). PLEASE MAKE CHEQUES PAYABLE TO: YORKSHIRE DALES GREEN LANES ALLIANCE and forward to YDGLA, Civic Centre, Cross Green, Otley, LS21 1HD together with this slip.

Name of individual or group……………………………...................…

I enclose a cheque for £10 Annual Individual and household membership fee)
£25 (Annual Affiliated Group membership fee)

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