tarmacked bridleway!!

Suechoccy said:
That't roadplanings (old tarmac that's been scraped off the road when they resurface it with new tarmac). A 20 tonne load is around £200 round here.
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The stuff used round here always seem to have a large amount of debris in it, bits of tiles and what looks suspiciously like glass when the light catches it.
 
We get told when and where they are shooting and upon occasion get a request not to use our gallops on a certain day between certain times as they are shooting from the side of it. It takes 2 minutes to find out who is running the shoots and giving them your number so they can text you when they plan to shoot where so you can avoid them. It's not hard.
 
criso said:
The stuff used round here always seem to have a large amount of debris in it, bits of tiles and what looks suspiciously like glass when the light catches it.
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That sounds like incinerator bottom ash (stuff that comes out of the bottom of incinerators - all the stuff that won't burn).
 
Molly'sMama said:
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It's because the fields, and wood have been sold to a new owner who want to use it for pheasant shooting, and so the bridleway needs to double as an access track?

however ... it's not a huge field or wood- how can we ride through a wood that people are shooting in???!?!?!? surely that's unsafe, but you cant shut off a bridleway, can you?
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Assuming that it actually had been sold for shooting, yes you can close a right of way for 28days a year by prior notification.

Shooting onto a right of way is illegal (can't remember how many metres away you have to be, think it is 100). Most lowland shooting with reared game is fed out and flown home so I doubt they will be shooting at you!

I actually think that surface looks good - I can't stand muddy tracks in the winter.
 
EllenJay said:
The owners can do what they like to it - provided you can still use it.
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No. They can't do what they like to it without permission from the local authority to alter a public right of way In my area we are having exactly this battle with a local landowner who has decided that our lovely 'pig track', immortalised by Sir Stanley Spencer in one of his paintings, should become an access road for his farm vehicles. The public consultation hearing taking place after a two year battle is next Monday.
 
I think that looks like an Ok surface to ride on, Id be quite pleased that it was going to stand up to the weather all year round. Im not a landowner but looking at it from their point of view Im sure it must be a bit of a pain to have to comply with so many different user groups. My personal opinion is that where a bridleway goes over private land there has to be a bit of give and take, the landowner doesnt have to take into account whether your horse is shod or not, thats your decision and if you think a particular route wont suit you, dont use it. As a for instance, I have a cracking route near me, for 5 months of the year there are young cattle out in one field which is on the bridleway. I wont ride through it as they are the sort of cattle who will come charging over. I just put an extra loop on the journey and end up in the same place, via a different field. Its annoying, but the farmer has to make a living and it is a fab grazing field. I dont complain about it, I feel very lucky that we have lovely bridleways near us and if some of them arent always to my liking I can go another way. Sorry for wandering off topic a bit but sometimes we need to see things from another angle :)
 
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