Village may pay to stop accidents on path (From Warrington Guardian)

Village may pay to stop accidents on path

A TREACHEROUS Davenham footpath is set to be resurfaced after reports that people slip on it in wet weather.

Davenham Parish Council has agreed to contribute towards getting a hardcore surface put on part of the popular path, which runs from Eaton Lane to Beehive corner in Moulton.

The ramblers' route is at its worst where it passes the houses soon after leaving Eaton Lane.

Graham Scott, clerk of Davenham Parish Council, said: "In the first 150 yards it's quite dangerous.

"In any wet weather it gets in a terrible state - I actually slipped and fell down recently."

He explained that the path, which joins up with other paths around the Weaver Navigation, is very heavily used because of the number of different walks people can access from it.

Graham said: "I walk along it with my dog every day and it is very popular.

"There are two or three footpaths leading off it so people can walk in different circular routes, so it's good that the council has agreed to resurfacing.

"Between 1999 and 2000, Davenham and Moulton combined together to do quite a lot to improve the paths in the area and put things like kissing gates in, but there is more to be done now it is four years on."

At the parish council meeting, on January 31 Graham said he had found out it had cost £1,270 to give similar stretches of path a hardcore surface and if the parish council made a contribution towards this cost, Cheshire County Council would pay the rest.

Members of the council agreed that they would contribute £300 towards the resurfacing.