Many thanks for your kind words, Ian.
Do you feel able to ask for the Himley Environment Ltd (HEL) landfill site to be looked at by your officers, please after approval from your Cabinet colleagues? The serious issues are:-
- I suspect, from my own site visit earlier this year, that the obvious neglect, broken fences, polluted stream, 4x4s and dirt bikes riding over it, that all this has gone on for many years, if not decades.
- The vast area of slag and landfill heaps/hills is adjacent to the two disused railway lines from Pensnett Nature Reserve to Baggeridge Country Park which were converted to, definitely, a walkway and in the 1980s - possibly. But no maintenance since then or, so it appears.
- Dudley's section of 5 Kms is in a disgraceful condition because it is used by the same 4x4s and dirt bikes that roar all over the hills of the landfill site alongside it.
- Yet, our section is the south section of the full 20 Kms Black Country Active Travel Route through three nature reserves, two cafes in old railway stations and one Woodland Trust property.
- It runs from Fens Pool Avenue, Brierley Hill to the canal towpath in NW Wolverhampton. North from Dudley's boundary near Himley Hall the cycle-walkway is fine. A smooth, free draining surface of even tarmac in places. Far worse in Dudley!:-Full set of photos:
Best wishes Tim
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