This pic is significant. It is taken facing away from the main gate at Bridgewood and the dirt car park entrance can be seen on the right. The second tree on the left of this picture has a red piece of paper stuck to it warning people about thieves etc. The reason this pic is significant is that it shows our council is taking notice of comments people make because this lane was previously marked very clearly as being private, no access etc and there were at least three notices to this affect when in fact it is not private at all. One was on the tree where the red paper is and the other two were notices stuck on poles on the right of the lane. This lane leads down to where the pile of logs is being stored and also to Pond Hall farm. There is also a home down here were a family live in wonderful surroundings and a chap I know lived down here for 15+ years in a caravan until he was given a bundle of money and a council house. The land used to belong to Percy Nichols and then he sold it on to a couple of chaps I do not know who in turn sold it to the late Stan Bird. Stan lived at the very end of Clapgate Lane in a big house surrounded by old cars and trucks he was working on. I noticed today that about ten houses have been built where his place was. IBC must have bought the land at Bridgewood off his estate or done a deal for planning permission on his other bit of land as they were always trying to move him and his trucks. I was up there as Mr Steve Hunt from IBC was meeting me on behalf of his boss Andy Shepperd and we seemed to make headway about disability access to Braziers Wood via the entrance in Braziers Wood Road. We also went to the other side of the old airport and Mr Steve Hunt seemed to be reasonable about access being allowed there too and he has said I will receive more information during the next seven days together with a map of the lanes that I cannot access as yet. Incidently we did not agree about the issue of Bridgewood just being left alone and he did explain or try to explain that the logs of wood laid out around the mound and other places are for psychological reasons.
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