Quote Originally Posted by Ram59 View Post
I must admit that I haven't heard the one hour rule mentioned anywhere.

On the subject of driving to somewhere remote and going for a walk, I agree that it seems harmless. But I've heard senior police officers more than once say that the reasoning behind the ban on unnecessary driving is that an accident would create an extra burden for the already stretched emergency services. I can see their point.
I’ve certainly heard it mentioned but seeing as the only places I can see it referenced are the Sun and the Express I may be wrong.

What Michael Gove has been quoted as saying is as follows...

‘People can go out for the standard length of run or walk they ordinarily would have done...but only once a day’...and, on the subject of allotments...

‘It would be sensible that people continue to go to their allotments but not for an excessive period of time’.

I don’t believe that either of those statements cause anything but confusion and I think that stopping/discouraging driving to places of beauty is necessary because if one does it others will follow.

The facts that Sheffield (closest City to the Peak District) currently has the fastest rising outbreaks of Covid-19 outside London and Derbyshire (home of the majority of the Peak District) has the highest number of cases in the ‘East Midlands’ may not be unrelated.