[Brown Trousers]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/commercial-property-for-sale/property-75292130.html

Looks like the sale might not include (all?) the climbing...

[ashtond6]

Heard this whilst there recently. Really disappointing to see and almost certainly will be houses i believe.

[Brown Trousers]

I've just e-mailed the BMC access folk in case they weren't aware.

They could develop the land as a climbers' enclave...

[Will Hunt]

Hopefully some access to the climbing will be preserved. But just in case it isn't I would strongly recommend that anybody who hasn't done it goes down there and climbs On The Road. Probably the best piece of corner climbing I've done anywhere. Supercrack is good too, if you like that sort of thing. Shithole location but some nice climbs.

[mrjonathanr]

I've just e-mailed the BMC access folk in case they weren't aware.

They could develop the land as a climbers' enclave...

I'm thinking sheltered housing/retirement village combo

[Teaboy]

Shithole location but some nice climbs.

Some thing for the future homebuilders to put on the brochure!

[Steve Crowe]

Maybe the BMC could build affordable housing for climbers.

[Brown Trousers]

Maybe the BMC could build affordable housing for climbers.

Sport out the back door, trad and bouldering out the front (Pic Tor, The P), decent bars down the street... just stick in a communal board and everyone's happy.

[tomtom]

Maybe the BMC could build affordable housing for climbers.

Sport out the back door, trad and bouldering out the front (Pic Tor, The P), decent bars down the street... just stick in a communal board and everyone's happy.

And it’d take 5 years two reviews and three partial rebellions to decide what colour to paint the front doors... :D

[teestub]

Shame Shark has left the BMC, looks like the perfect project for a slum landlord!

[cheque]

Update.

Doesn’t look like good news.

[spidermonkey09]

 Sad as losing access would be, the crime here is that not a single one of the 17 houses will be classed as affordable housing. What a disgrace.

[Fiend]

Update.

Doesn’t look like good news.

UGH.

Reading the description and looking at the map, it's blindingly obvious that climbers access could theoretically very easily continue on the other side of the rock-catchment ditch/fence (which would provide a clear boundary between the housing and the crag), particularly with the amount of trees keeping to privacy of the houses from the quarry face (and the crag not overlooking gardens, only the driveway / house fronts), subject of course to sensible restrictions like limited numbers, no climbing late in the evening, no shouting / swearing / toiletting at the crag etc 

[Will Hunt]

If anyone hasn't done On the Road yet then it really is extremely good. Worth a trip before it disappears.

[shark]

Reading the description and looking at the map, it's blindingly obvious that climbers access could theoretically very easily continue on the other side of the rock-catchment ditch/fence (which would provide a clear boundary between the housing and the crag), particularly with the amount of trees keeping to privacy of the houses from the quarry face (and the crag not overlooking gardens, only the driveway / house fronts), subject of course to sensible restrictions like limited numbers, no climbing late in the evening, no shouting / swearing / toiletting at the crag etc 

Very similar to Craig-y-longridge in those respects but it was nothing short of a miracle that the BMC was able to acquire the strip which I gather was because the farmer selling the land had a soft spot for climbers