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Your thoughts ?
What are your thoughts on this, is it progress.
The first photo shows a bridleway near me, if you look you can see the old path next to the new cinder path, it is made from waste tarmac bits , it streches for about 5 miles now.
The second photo shows what a local land owner has done to stop it's progress onto his land.
I'm just wondering when the street lamps are going to be fitted lighting the countryside
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11th Mar 2010 9:23 pm
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An eye sore. Why does it need to happen, and if so, why not use a more locally sourced base material......
11th Mar 2010 9:27 pm
GLYNNE
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I like it Can you get some for me
11th Mar 2010 9:43 pm
blue meanie D3 Decade
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they did a load of this sort of grading on paths/bridleways/byways around here about 4 or 5 years ago, if your local authority is anything like ours they then forget about it and in a couple of seasons it's almost 'back to natural' and theeeeennn......???
11th Mar 2010 9:47 pm
Mark Y
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GLYNNE wrote:
I like it Can you get some for me
I'm sure I can give you a quote, do you think the council will notice if i start filling my 90 with the cr*p and bringing it to you
11th Mar 2010 9:59 pm
Winger Site Moderator
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I don't know who owns the land in the first photograph, but it looks to me as though the path in places has been laid less than a metre from the hedge.
It's vandalism.
11th Mar 2010 10:09 pm
Mark Y
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It's a local councillor
11th Mar 2010 10:16 pm
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does he wear a bobbly hat ? and theeeeennn......???
As a quondam equestrian, it's not what I'd chose to ride on for a bridleway, but as Malc says, give it a couple of seasons and it'll make a good base.Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
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Mark Y wrote:
It's a local councillor
So no doubt he is on the take. I suspect that the Rural Payments Agency would be interested in what has been done.
11th Mar 2010 10:29 pm
Blobby
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That looks horrible and if it's just a Bridleway, then more than twice the width it needs to be. I can undestand them using this material on a RUPP (think they are called something else now) but on a path for horses, cyclists and ramblers, this looks like a vandalism of the countryside. Very poor.
11th Mar 2010 10:39 pm
Hassle
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Winger wrote:
So no doubt he is on the take. I suspect that the Rural Payments Agency would be interested in what has been done.
only if he is accepting the rural payments other wise he can do what he wants with the hedge
12th Mar 2010 1:10 pm
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Could be a disabled access path, doesn't each council have to have so many miles suitable for wheelchair.Club Pie n Pea
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12th Mar 2010 1:14 pm
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Willy Eckerslike wrote:
suitable for wheelchair.
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12th Mar 2010 1:17 pm
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Hassle wrote:
only if he is accepting the rural payments other wise he can do what he wants with the hedge
Yes - agreed. But on the basis he is a politician, he will no doubt be taking everything that he can get!
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, it streches for about 5 miles now.
Can you get some for me 
