When wandering the Peak, have you ever wondered, hold on, there should really should be a gate here, or why isn’t there a footpath between one place and another?

Wonder no more. The Peak Local Access Forum (Peak LAF) keeps a wishlist of places where there's been a request for better access. Then, Peak National Park officers do what they can to facilitate access or create concessionary routes in such places. 

If a landowner is not initially willing to arrange something on private land, windows of opportunity can crop up in the context of a wider negotiation, like a High Level Stewardship Scheme.

If there's not reasonable access onto open access land, things ought to be more straightforward, even if what one person thinks is reasonable is unreasonable to another.

Now is your chance to register anything on your personal wishlist. Drop BMC Peak Access rep Henry Folkard an e-mail at henry.folkard@bmcvolunteers.org.uk  and he will feed your request into a Peak Local Access Forum meeting next month.

There is no guarantee your request will be met, but, if it's logged then it stands a chance!

Some of the locations already on the wishlist are:

• Rod Moor
• High Riggs
• Parson’s Piece
• Furnace Hill
• Linen Dale / Housley
• Dove Top
• Eyam Moor to Sir William Hill (north)
• Stanshope
• Gratton Hill
• Fallinge Edge
• Gypsy Bank / Wolfscote Dale
• Harland Edge
• Longstone Edge / Wardlow Hey
• Rudd Hill
• Wards Piece to Edale End
• Loftshaw
• Hollingdale Plantation
• Kirk Edge
• Hazelbadge
• Dove Bank
• Longdendale trail / Shining Clough
• Monsal Dale / Brushfield

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