Supposed improved access. This map has been sent to me by IBC and the writing in red is theirs whereas that in green is mine.Click http://static.flickr.com/50/144790450_c0af1217f7_b.jpg or click on the pic. The wording you can read is by IBC and it would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic. ["The last 15 years has seen the development of the Braziers Wood/Bridge Wood/Pipers Vale area from a collection of separate land holdings with poor access and dubious safety into a well managed cohesive country park."]
Well lets get something straight here IBC. I have lived here 63 years and my parents and their parents before them so I think I do know better than the above. The area now has worse access than it has ever had in living memory and there never was dubious safety. It is NOT a country park. It is an ancient woodland that is gradually being destroyed by IBC and the publicity about it they are causing. It is now a place where people from miles away in Chelsea Tractors bring their dogs to crap and dirty old men haunt at night time frightening young people away.
["Disabled access onto as large a part of the site as possible has always been important, and the new areas of grassland have wheelchair gates from the new housing development. (NO THERE IS NOT AND THE GRASSLAND IS NOT NEW. IT IS THE OLD AIRPORT GRASS THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THERE) The path and gate installation are not complete, and once the paths and access routes are established along with the completion of all Ravenswood buildings the internal Braziers Wood fencing will be removed."]

Really! The fences that have cost us thousands will be removed no doubt at another great cost to us. Listen IBC why put the fences and gates up in the first place if they are all coming down again? As for disabled access onto blah blah blah well that is nonsense. There is no disabled access to Braziers Wood and hasn't been since the gate at Braziers Wood Road was erected. It is impossible for disabled people to get to Braziers Wood and has been for the 16 years IBC have owned it. ["The path and gate installation are not complete...."] How long do you want IBC?Another 16 years? It is impossible to access Braziers Wood full stop so how about doing something under your obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act and stop wasting time on "make work" schemes that are costing a fortune. Bridge Wood is not even within IBC boundary and yet IBC are stopping many young people using it the way I and other kids always have used it and to boot they are spending our money keeping us out. This is an outrage that should be dismantled and returned to the wild. Many people have already earned out of this spectacle. It seems hard to remember that once I could drive down to the river and see John Hunt digging bait with his car there too or that once I could walk from Stan Birds across the airport to Braziers Wood and Bridge Wood. In all the years we had a commercial airport here it was never fenced yet now it is a leisure area it is fenced too keep people out too. Somebody must be doing well out of fencing this place in and gradually giving large chunks to Bellways to build on. Directorships and triples all round I reckon. Seven Million pounds worth of dockland being given to create a university too. That should be worth a bundle of honoury degrees too but not for us whose money/land it is. I am certain I am going to see James Heir with an honoury degree from Ipswich University as well as a few others too. Spit. He will only accept a doctorate? He should have built a cathederal and got a Bishopsprick as well as City status.
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