Recent content by SJPalmer

Thanks everybody for your advice and support. I shall write to the Local Government Ombudsman this weekend:D

I've nearly always hacked alone. We encounter our share of scary things in hedges including dumped tvs, fridges, garden rubbish, children's toys etc. What I do is on seeing anything with high-spook value is settle down in the saddle, sigh loudly and say 'it's only rubbish' in the same tone...

The reason some of us don't know how to use them is because we don't have any, we don't have farmland to ride on. I can ride out for 2-3 hours on public commons or in the forest without coming across any gates. The only gated bridleway in this part of north Hampshire leads to a lethal 60mph...

I think it depends on the type of tarmac they use and whether they dress the top of it. A couple of years ago contractors had a bit of tarmac left over from doing a road so thought it would be helpful to spread it over the nearest section of bridleway rather than waste it but they didn't put...

Thanks but I think it was my last email to him that got me banned! I raised the issue of all the conflicting communications being given by councillors, staff and executive members to the public, local society, MP and even the Minister of Defra (quoting from correspondence I have from them)...

Hi Rachel, what is an FOI?

Orange Horse: Thank you for this detailed advice. It sounds like yours is the voice of much experience. I shall have to follow your lead and complain in writing rather than by email with PDFs of photographs. And I'll endeavour to have zero emotion in it, horses and enthusiasm clearly should...

I know, I don't think they liked it me copying other interested parties - including commoners and councillors! One of the other people has been banned from asking for a meeting with the ROW officer to discuss a practical way forward to resolve the problems.

The BHS know already but I haven't tried the local paper ... yet :)

Hi, Is anybody else having trouble getting their county council to maintain bridleways or take complaints seriously? We've got eight out of 10 that are impassable, obstructed, unsignposted, tarmaced, used by HGV's or have dangerous road crossings (Yateley/Eversley in Hampshire). I've been...