It’s the end of mountain biking in the protected part of the Lundby Hills at Gistrup south of Aalborg.
It has Fredningsnævnet of north Jutland has just stated in an order where they impose on the Municipality to remove the otherwise popular bike routes in the nature reserve.
the Municipality must remove all traces, so that in the future can not see, to the hills for a number of years has been widely used for the impreza. It writes Nordjyske.
According to the newspaper Fredningsnævnet both studied the map from the original protection from the 1960’s and been out to look at the cases, after which they have determined that the establishment of mountain bike trails ‘is clearly outside’, what have been the intentions of the implementation of the preservation order.
As Extra the Blade previously described, and sent, the Municipality of Aalborg case to Fredningsnævnet on a local resident’s initiative.
Henning Olesen, 72, has together with his wife lived on a property in the forest at Lundby Hills since 2005. The area has been preserved in almost 60 years. Just the forest, was some of it that got Henning to fall for the place.
– in the Past you could send the children out in the woods. It can not be more. I dare not let my grandchildren play in the forest. There can suddenly come a sportscykelrytter blazing down the slope, with 40 to 50 kilometres an hour, he said, when he in the month of may showed Extra Leaf cycling routes in the area.
It is tracks such as this one, Aalborg Municipality now must remove. Photo: René Schütze
He has in recent years fought hard against the tracks, as the municipality has given permission to establish in the forest floor. Fredningsnævnets decision is therefore a matter of joy in the house in the forest.
I am incredibly satisfied with the outcome, but it is incredible that you as a citizen should use so much effort and so long on a case, in which the management is in fact itself should have intervened, says Henning Olesen to the North.
the Municipality of Aalborg has now a deadline of four weeks to assess whether they will appeal against the decision to the Environment – and Fødevareklagenævnet.
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