I REFER to your Padgate, Orford, Woolston Local Life article, Warrington Guardian, July 9, regarding the link pathway between Blackburne Close and Woolston Grange and the vandalism being carried out on the concrete fencing panels.

As you note the pathway was constructed to replace the ‘pink bridge’.

I am a resident from Fearnhead and use the lights controlled crossing over Woolston Grange at the roundabout from Harpers Road direction which also links in the pathway from Blackburne Close.

I can only think that the culprits are from Blackburne Close or Anderson Close as there is really no need to enter Blackburne Close, as was the case for pedestrians before the removal of the bridge.

There was no pathway for several months when the bridge was initially removed and when the contractor eventually provided it I was of the opinion that the fence was always of a ‘poor’ specification, more of a domestic fence than that required for a pedestrian walkway and as Cllr Settle says it is ‘not fit for purpose’.

Blackburne Close was used as an approach because of the sloping rake of the bridge and it would now be closer for all but a few residents to walk out into Harpers Road down to the roundabout.

The solution is definitely as you reported in your article, and to fill in the pathway and landscape the area.

STANLEY GILL

Fearnhead