More than £100k spent fighting ash dieback on a single Peak District trail
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In a meeting of the Peak District National Park Authority, Councillor David Chapman commented: “I don’t know if anybody has walked the Tissington Trail past the Thorpe Station, but it’s absolutely a nightmare to see the work that’s going on with ash dieback, it’s horrendous.”
Acting head of asset management Matt Freestone said the Tissington Trail was ‘among the most significant’ sites to be affected by the fungal disease, estimating around £112k had been spent on that trail alone.
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Hide Ad“We will be looking at our woodlands and car park sites with trees on and we have a plan in place for that and there are costs,” he added.
In April last year Derbyshire County Council set out a plan for dealing with the effects of ash dieback and estimated it could cost the authority up to £40.5million over the next 20 years.
Ash trees are particularly prominent in limestone regions and there are around 9million in the Derbyshire as a whole.