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Looking south from Coniston Boating Centre's jetty

Bluebird Project Consultation

Bluebird Project Draft Byelaw Consultation

30 March 2010: Latest news

In 2008 the team rebuilding Bluebird K7 asked the Lake District National Park Authority to consider amending the Coniston Water byelaws, to allow the craft to undertake proving trials in excess of 10mph. The existing Byelaws wouldn’t allow this to happen.

Following a public consultation in Spring 2009 we agreed to allow the Bluebird Project to hold a one-off event on Coniston Water for a proving trial of the re-built Bluebird, subject to specific conditions related to:

• timing of the event
• health and safety
• environmental considerations, including risks of water and noise pollution

We have now re-drafted the Coniston Water byelaws to allow the Bluebird trials to take place and a consultation on the draft byelaws took place between 1 February and 28 March 2010.

What will happen next?

The consultation has now ended and we received over 250 responses. We will now analyse the comments received and produce a report for the Lake District National Park Authority Committee

Once we have finalised the draft byelaws there will then be a formal consultation.