18 August - Beware of the dark
I didn’t think this blog reached as far south as Bexley Village any more but apparently it does, at least occasionally. Following on from
the Post
Office story another has surfaced and this time it is a neglected footpath that is causing some aggravation.
Bexley
Council’s record on footpaths has never been good.
Footpath 11 has been lost due
to the fiasco which is the site of Ye Olde Leather Bottle on Heron Hill and they illegally
allowed Bridleway 250 to be blocked by a land owner.
According to
Bexley Council’s Rights of Way map a footpath, part of which runs through
their car park in Bexley Village towards the railway station, is numbered 146
and as the nine photographs that may be seen here show, it is a mess.
Unlit and not quite blocked it may be dangerous to pass after dark and it has
been like it all this year at least. It may have been exacerbated by adjacent building works.
Councillor Cameron Smith (St. Mary’s & St. James) is very well aware of the situation and been pestering the
responsible Council Officer for the past six months and has recently restated
that he regards the situation as “unacceptable”.
But what can a Councillor do when faced with either a lack of staff or useless
staff and what if the adjacent land owners are responsible for the shabby
fences and overgrown foliage and refuse to do anything about it?
Footpath running behind Bexley High Street from car park top left and station car park top right.