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Dear Editor,

I have always considered that people in our area were honest and truthful and, referring to the correspondence on "the lost footpath", I pondered on why people could categorically state that people had always walked outside the area that has recently been re-fenced. Then the penny dropped.

After walking from Swann Way we were indeed inside the buffer zone and hence my equally categorical statement that I had never walked outside this zone. However at the end of the bank where the ground becomes level the path does veer outside the buffer zone bypassing initially three houses until this gap was closed and someone created a new opening a house width nearer to Swann Way.

So there we are - we did walk outside the newly fenced off area, but for only a fraction, not the majority, of its length. We cannot now safely reach this area from Swann Way unless we are fit and wear ankle supporting boots.

In the same way that it is a privilege to walk round Reinden Wood or over Castle Hill, it was a privilege to walk this path especially in the direction of Killing Wood. It was a joy to have the view of the Downs gradually emerge and to overlook Folkestone and the sea and it is the best place I know to hear the song of the Skylarks.

To lose this experience is truly sad and that is why the matter has been raised. I too am in correspondence with the council on the matter as are some others. If this is a few or a lot I do not know. It is for others to decide if it is an "out of proportion response". I assume that some representation stimulated the Council to act in the way it has. Perhaps that may have been out of proportion.

Yours sincerely,

Peter Brun.

Not "Name and address Supplied."