Existing problems reported with 572
- I should like to suggest a few changes to improve access to this area. The current issues are: The area North of Ilkley than contains several well known tourist and walkers destinations is effectively 'blocked' by two long distance routes, ILKPAT and GRAILK. These routes need to be crossed by East-West paths and there are two fairly obvious choices, Bolton Abbey and Appletrewick. Both have lots of facilities, public transport and are tourist hubs. Both currently fall or are very close to the ILKPAT route so it would not much affect this. The Sun Inn is not a tourist destination and has no public transport and would be better moved to Blubberhouses which is a tourist destination and has limited public transport. this would mean minor modifications to existing routes to the Sun Inn. The ILKPAT route is currently probably too long and could easily be divided into ILKBLU and BLUPAT. The great advantage of the changes would be to create good through routes like BLU-BOL-SKI and PAT-APP-SKI This is a fantastic walking area and the changes would be of great benefit. Being local I have an insight into the area. I hope you will consider this carefully. I would be happy to send you missing routes as shown on the attachment. Kind regards Chris Reported 05 Jul 2021