Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

https://byvrt.org.uk/faqs/#SnapperFAQs now contains FGAs to three (now four) FAQs, including two (now three) you haven't asked yet!

 

Noted, thanks, and some useful stuff there as to the 'reasons why'.

 

A thoughtful website with a lot of information. I'm a trustee of a canal restoration society and I agree with your approach. Unless a multi-millionaire benefactor arrives, it isn't feasible to restore everything sequentially and it's better to restore what can be achieved. Having a plan is important but so to is having the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Momentum and success builds credibility with stakeholders and leads to more success and opens doors to funding. You're spot on with pursuing planning consent in a careful and considered way. The approach will keep each application to a manageable size and scale for you to administer and it allows the planning authority to focus on a modest range of issues compared with a larger application for an operational railway. As seen elsewhere on the L&B and other lines, applications for lengths of running line, car parking & passenger facilities etc. are eye wateringly expensive, require thousands of pages of paperwork and generate multiple issues that need to be addressed with stakeholders.