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Killing Wood footpath meeting planned
Posted by editor on Sep 24, 2007 - 12:32 PM
Filed under: Local authority, Have your say!
Dear Editor,
It is now coming up to six months since the footpath between Swann Way and
Killing Wood has been closed off by Shepway District Council.
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A meeting has been arranged in a side room at the Community Centre for Thursday
October 4th at 8.00pm.
I hope that a Swann Way to Killing Wood Footpath Users Association will be
formed.
Despite the Parish Council’s resolution to ask SDC to reopen the route, there
has been no indication from the District Council of their plans for the path.
It is possible that Shepway is over elaborating its plans for the path and then
finding that lack of funds makes it impossible to carry them out.
I hope that a body supported by a large membership should be able to ask for a
progress report and also be able to offer simple affordable suggestions, within
the terms of the Parish Council’s resolution, as to what is required and I hope
that these can be determined at the meeting.
Why now?
In order to remind Shepway that in mid October the path will have been closed 6
months and that the ideal time for planting screening shrubs and trees will be
with us.
Please come with as many people as possible to discuss possibilities with a
forward, not backward, looking attitude.
Peter
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Dear Editor, I have just realised that in my letter about this meeting I did not say a time. The meeting is on Thursday 4th October at 8 p.m. Sorry about that
Peter.
Dear Editor,
People who have been struggling along the awful path created by SDC outside the fence of the buffer zone behind the bank above Spitfire Way may wonder if that is the end result achieved by the Swann Way to Killing Wood Pathway Users Association. This alternative was rejected as being unsuitable on the following grounds:-
The qualities that the existing path has which this proposed new one does not are:-
• People can walk sociably abreast of each other.
• There is no problem in passing people coming in the opposite direction.
• It is level and comfortable to walk on without having to watch your feet all the time.
• It is not bounded by aggressive plants such as nettles, hawthorn, holly and wild rose.
• It is suitable for taking push chairs and invalid chairs.
• People of any age and level of fitness can make use of it.
The new path has none of these advantages and is quite dangerous to use because in places it is on a sideways slope and is also very rough. A site meeting was called by SDC in November when residents bordering this land, the Parish Council and we were represented. Those attending who represented SDC made certain proposals at the end of this meeting and we hope that they will soon be carried out. These proposals were to re-open the area to the public and for SDC to provide up to four metres of dense planting outside the garden fences of those residents with no screening at present. The Pathway users have accepted this proposal as reasonable as has the Parish Council and we are waiting for its speedy implementation.
Yours sincerely,
Peter
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