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These are walkways, an integral part of human quality of life. People, and many of them, sit and watch the bowls in the Summer months. A bike path is not need along here. They belong to our road systems, and KCC and Kent Highways, who require not planning permission, and do not live anywhere near to Dover, should have more respect.
You wonder why, the paths and vistas, along this River Dour are so neglected, and people lose heart, Then low and behold
£500.000.00 appears, to fell the trees, cut the River in half on a flood plain and tarmac a dead end cycle path.
On planning, Pencester PARK, currently has a Bye Law banning cycling. That, and the fact that it is a Public Park. means the construction of a new cycle way, (even widening of the footpath to accomodate it), needs planning approval.
Currently the design is for the paviours to be lifted and replaced with a 3m wide tarmac path.
To get around planning DDC & KCC are trying, (behind everyones back), to rededicate it as a Highways path, so that they can try and avoid planning
These paths come to a grinding halt everywhere anyway, if they stuck to the road system, which is in place, none of this stupidity would be necessary. Mark the Tarmac Path, which means all the expensive red bricks paving, will be removed, alongside the River in Pencester PARK. Again, this is a green space, a park, people sit alongside this river whenever they can. Cyclists should be nowhere near this, at all.
