Eddie
Short has forwarded your emails to me and am I right, are you both
Rochford and Castle Point's Footpath Officers or are you Hike Essex. I
am the Membership Secretary and Publicity Officer for South East Essex
Ramblers. Eddie said that you had a working group on Saturday clearing
Tinker's Lane, this is the footpath my Husband Peter made a complaint
about on the 1st July 2015 ref. no. 2410234 Location: PROW 290_19
Rochford. Part of the Roach Valley Way. To track the status of a
reported Highway problem visit our website at
http://www.essexhighways.org/ask-us.aspx we have just visited the site and this is what it says;
Reference: 2410234
Current Status: REPAIR IN PROGRESS
Last updated: 04/05/2016 - 10:18
We have inspected a VEGETATION PROBLEM ON PROW at TINKERS LANE, ROCHFORD and will be fixing it imminently.
so
obviously they will update this. I asked Eddie if you had any problems
with the dogs that live up there, he said no, but Peter and another of
our lady walkers were both attacked, not seriously, but grabbing at
trousers that sort thing.
As
Membership Sec. I have 191 members on email, so when you are doing this
again, please let me know and I can circulate it and you never know we
might get more volunteers, certainly Peter and I will try and come
along. in the meantime I will send out the paragraph you sent Eddie,
also just to let you know Footpath no. 3, at the top of Mount Bovers
Lane, between a house called Cornhill and Mount Bovers Farm House is
also overgrown and we, just the two of us, went up there yesterday with
shears and cutters, to cut back nettles and brambles, as Peter will be
leading a walk using that footpath next month, there is also two ivy
covered trees overhanging the path, one at the top end and one at the
bottom, that you have to duck under to get through, but of course they
were to big for us to tackle.
Anyway do keep us in the loop and I will inform our committee so they know what's going on too. Kindest regards, Dorothy
