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In November 2018 the Lake District National Park approved a planning application from the Slate Mine for a zip wire running 1 km from Fleetwith Pike (a longer wire than the one which was the subject of controversy in 2011)). The
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According to English Nature, the "ideal management for natural inland geological sites is the maintenance of rock exposure free of vegetation and, in some cases, the build-up of rock debris".
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The site is important for its plants and provides one of the best examples of species-rich upland ledge communities in West Cumbria. It supports a mixture of montane and lowland species.
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for damaging the SSSI. The mine had been redeveloped by a local businessman as a tourist attraction, and the facilities included an unapproved extension to an existing
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control grazing stock (overgrazing has also affected other sites in the Lake District High Fells SAC)
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It is separated from one of the other SSSIs, Buttermere Fells, by the
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expressed concern that damage would be caused to alpine flowers.
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Lake District High Fells Special Area of Conservation
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