Clearance is continuing in response to the significant growth due to this years wet and warm weather. The CBC contractor who cuts certain paths has also been active in the area in the last couple of weeks. CHA8 (below) is a path that leaves A5120 just south of the Chalgrave Golf Course entrance, it then […]
Over the last few days, we have cleared four bridges on the River Flit and a couple more nearby. The river Flit between Cowbridge and Fancott. The area has had contractors laying cables which has meant it has been very muddy, but I understand the work is coming to a conclusion and the muddy tracks
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Above is a path off Leighton road, on the Toddington/Chalgrave parish boundary. Driving past it recently I could not even see the finger post as the path was totally obstructed. Some clearance has revealed the post and the broken stile steps – so please take care This is a permissive path, opposite CHA36 on Leighton
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I had feedback that the paths at Lodge farm on the Lodge farm walk were not easy to access. So over the last ten days we have been out and cleared those at Lodge farm and where other paths leave Long Lane. As I highlighted in earlier post (daft as a brush) where soil has
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Who goes around sweeping bridges? I do! Some may call me daft, but the mud left on the wooden bridges allow them to rot, which ultimately causes them to become unsafe and require replacement. Replacement costs us, as Central Beds residents, money to fund materials and a contractor to replace the bridge. So if a
For various reasons we have not been walking and keeping vegetation in check for the last couple of years, but we are back out on the paths. As Allan Portas used to tell me, one thing is certain, whatever you cut back will only grow again! How true, particularly in this wet and warm weather.
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We have managed to get out and replace this waymark post in the lest few days. It is on TOD60 beyond Crowbush from Toddington. The post fell down a while ago, but the old post has done over 15 years of service, the old post was installed by the Dr Long and his children as
Something urban – over the past few months Tony & I have been clearing some paths in the churchyard. The grass edges of these paths have gradually extended over the tarmac. So cutting it back has revealed more of the path. The path shown is well used and it has been pleasant chatting to the
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Spent time today clearing a section of path TOD34 – east of the M1 towards Redhill farm and TOD35 which joins the B5120 at M1 junction 12. Both bits that we have not cleared for a couple of years, and it shows. Also collected a large sack of litter. During this low growth period the
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There have been a few complaints about some of the urban paths obstructed by vegetation. Turns out the combination of changes of staff, policies and different CBC contractors has meant that some paths have been not addressed recently. So I have had a go at: While cutting the Dunstable Road/Luton Road path some young children
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