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Dargan Creek (Dams Cliff) Plan of Management 16-Feb-2012 At 1:24:52 PM SRC Access Officer

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On 16/02/2012 Useful wrote:
>Andrew
>
>Is the issue that has led to the proposal for regulation of bolting safety-related?
> Happy to try and dig out some useful stats to inform responses if so.
>
>I think it would be worth asking John Davies if you don't know off the
>top of your head. Having reviewed the section that talks about bolting,
>the suggestion to regulate new bolting comes a bit out of the blue and
>there's no accompanying rationale other than the generic PoM objective
>of 'avoid, mitigate and manage risk'.
>
>Pointless getting stats on how safe climbing is if the suggestion is there
>for aesthetic reasons.
>
>Interestingly, the Plan itself says:
>"The Blue Mountains City Council Nature-based Recreation Strategy 2005-2015
>notes that recent reforms to Insurance Liability legislation have placed
>much of the responsibility for personal safety in recreation activities
>back onto the individual participant."

I did ask him about this and his reply was that he didn't know where it came from. He said that the consultants who prepared the DPoM would have got it from somewhere, but he didn't know where.

I mentioned that bolting had been going on in the Mtns for quite some time now, and that the climbing community had a good track record with sharing best practices and bolt maintenance etc.

This didn't seem to be a big issue for him, but he asked me to mention it in the SRC's submission...