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Alan Kirkbride on the bank of Horse Creek. He s worried that proposed wells into the groundwater could drain this creek he relies on for ranching.
Driving east out of Cheyenne, a lot of people probably think there s nothing but cornfields and oil wells. But if you climb in an ATV with rancher Alan Kirkbride, he ll show you a secret world where his ancestors have raised cattle since the late 1800s.
We climb out on the bank of Horse Creek where thick willows grow under high white cliffs. Kirkbride says little creeks like this seep up from groundwater that s essential for growing grass for his herd. He says climate change has made disputes over even small water sources like this a rougher sport.
More people buying homes in Dales as investment rather than somewhere to work and live Menu
More people buying homes in Dales as investment rather than somewhere to work and live - meeting told By T&A Reporters A REVIEW into the impact of pandemic on a national park has heard fresh calls for action over surging numbers of second homes and holiday cottages as people increasingly look to move to the country. A Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority meeting heard while some of Covid-19’s social and economic consequences on the 2,179sq km area remained unclear, there was increasingly clear evidence that the rising numbers of people were buying properties as an investment rather than as somewhere to live and work.
The Yorkshire Dales near Bainbridge. Picture: Richard Doughty Photography. A REVIEW into the impact of pandemic on a national park has heard fresh calls for action over surging numbers of second homes and holiday cottages as people increasingly look to move to the country. A Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority meeting heard while some of Covid-19’s social and economic consequences on the 2,179sq km area remained unclear, there was increasingly clear evidence that the rising numbers of people were buying properties as an investment rather than as somewhere to live and work. Members were told while 3,100 of the national park’s 12,000 properties were now holiday lets and second homes, and the number was rising, the pandemic had accelerated a trend for rural relocations among wealthy and retired people.
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A RESIDENT who was knocked down by a car in the main street of Askrigg asked Askrigg and Low Abbotside Parish Council to take seriously the problem of “illegal” pavement parking in the village at a meeting conducted via Zoom. Tony Hutchinson of Brecon Bar said in an email that “sooner or later someone will get killed. No more procrastinating; this illegal parking on the pavement throughout the village has to be taken more seriously and addressed as a matter of urgency,” he wrote. Another resident, Cathy Gosling of Silver Street, raised the difficulty of exiting the street into the main road. Many people drove too fast down the hill and if vans or large cars were parked outside Skeldale House on the right or the village shop on the left, it was “virtually impossible” to see what was coming.