P-04-605 Save the Cwmcarn Forest Drive from Indefinite or Permanent Closure
P-04-605 Save the Cwmcarn Forest Drive from Indefinite or Permanent Closure
We call upon the National
Assembly for Wales to urge the Welsh Government to reverse the decision of
Natural Resources Wales to close the Cwmcarn Forest Drive indefinitely on 2nd
November 2014.
Addiional
Information
NRW have stated that the
Cwmcarn Forest Drive will be closed indefinitely in November and that this is
necessary because of the infection of the Japanese larches in the forest. I am
not convinced as there are inconsistencies with NRW approach. There are ample
harvest roads which can be used to facilitate removal of the trees. What needs
to be removed via the drive could done during its annual winter closure;
however NRW say that removing the trees will not be completed until 2018 and
after this the drive may not reopen due to funding issues. Other forest parks
are only facing minimal disruption to their facilities as a result of tree
removal. To single out users of the drive is unfair and unnecessary when other
users will face only temporary disruption. We should save the drive for its
users, many of whom are elderly, disabled and from our ethnic minority and
immigrant communities. This deprives those people who are our most deprived of
their main facility for health and well being.
Petitioner : Robert Jeffrey Southall
First considered by
the Committee:
Number of
Signatures: 2,392
electronic signatures and 602 paper signatures. Total 2,994
Business type: Petition
Reason considered: Senedd Business;
Status: For consideration
First published: 22/10/2014