New National Park pay and display locations to go live

[Andy Smith]

The Peak District National Park Authority has confirmed that pay and display charges will soon apply at an additional 13 of its car park locations, with payment machines going live from the first week of November (2023).
Many of these 13 are ones the Club uses regularly. For more details, see the PDNPA Press Release here:
http://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/learning-about/news/current-news/new-national-park-pay-and-display-locations-to-go-live

[John Barnard]

I’ve just been past the “Derwent Overlook” laybys (the big ones just before you get to the Fairholmes visitor centre below the dam) and it appears that, if they were planning to introduce parking charges there, they’ve changed their mind. I can’t remember if they’d actually got round to installing pay-and-display machines, but there are none there now, and the new sign now seems to have the line about pay and display more effectively obliterated than it was. The PDNP website (https://www.peakdistrict.gov.uk/visiting/planning-your-visit/parking/parking-locations) also now clearly says that parking there is free. The same web page also now shows the Hooks Carr and Dennis Knoll laybys below Stanage as free, though the Hollin Bank (Plantation) carpark remains Pay and Display.
The road beyond Fairholmes up to Kings Tree at the top of the Derwent Valley is also now open again Mon-Fri (they seem to have finished the work they were doing on the inlet just above the Derwent dam over the past couple of months, and have re-landscaped the area where the crane was). Unsurprisingly after the recent rain, water is now cascading over the tops of both dams.

[Elen Rees]

Just as a footnote to the parking charges. The PDNPA have been forced to put up parking charges because of a cut in funding from the Government amounting to a 40% real terms cut in the core grant over the past ten years .

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