The lake district

Conflicts can occur:

• Most popular national park in the UK.
• Has lakes and mountains.
• Offers a large range of activities such a boating, walking, climbing and historic interest.

These activities cause conflicts:

• Popular walking areas suffer from erosion.
• Mountain bikes and horses spoil the landscape by churning up the grass into mud.
• Speed boats create noise pollution which annoys other boaters and tourists.
• Cars cause traffic jams at popular times and air pollution.
• There are not enough parking spaces for cars so they have to park in the road and on grass.
• Tourists park in front of farmer's gates - blocking the farmers' entrance.
• Tourists drop litter and pick wild flowers.

What can be done to solve it?

• Some roads completely closed and others can be closed except for local traffic.
• A park and ride scheme could be created.
• This makes it more pleasant for other tourists.
• BUT people in the tourist industry lose out as if you have a shop on a busy road, it will get more trade than a shop on a road which is closed to traffic.
• Speed restrictions on lakes.
• Limit public access to footpaths and fence off sensitive areas.