Oh, I'm aware there's no seperation requirement or that any can be enforced. I'm just thinking of general trends.
Do u mean the wrong side with regard to the right hand side rule??
Yep.
I guess what I'm getting at is that most SEP aircraft want to be as high as possible at any given point so an aircraft outbound will be overhead Long Eaton at 2000ft, and an inbound one may just have dropped down to 2000ft to get in for his clearance. In that little bit of airspace just north of Long Eaton (and just south of Shepshed) there is opposite direction traffic at the same level (2000ft). Granted one is on the other side of the M1 to the other, but at what point a pilot following the M1 makes his decision to swap to the correct side of the motoway (right hand side rule) is an unknown.
Good point about the 1500ft over Markfield - even at 2000ft it feels like you could nearly reach out and touch those transmission towers. And I got my LW and LE's mixed up in the previous post - will go and correct that.
But then as you say this is VFR and seperation is the responsibility of the eyes in the aircraft!