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Read about green laning as seen through Lauren ‘Sunshine’ Eaton's windscreen at The Green Lane Association, and find out what’s hot, or not, in the laning world each month. Enjoy!
Starting the year off as we mean to go on! It has been a busy start to the year for the laning world. GLASS have welcomed a huge number of new members, we’re chin deep in legal action, and are busy addressing physical works on the lanes. Here is a rundown of the top 10 news in brief stories from the first month of the year
1. Spring Lane, Leicestershire I wrote about this only last month. For those of you who have not come across the case - Spring Lane has been largely neglected over recent years and this had caused one badly draining section to fall into disrepair. At the other end of the byway the section that leads to residences had deteriorated to the point that essential services could not access the properties. Everyone wanted the lane closed, but we all know that closure is not management! It took from October 2020 to the end of 2021, and GLASS serving legal notice on the council, to ensure the lane would remain open, and to get to the stage where the work could begin. By now, the plan was to have the lane brought up to the standard required by law to allow all users to pass without hindrance, but unfortunately, we have hit another delay. Work was due to start one dry January Monday morning and on Friday the contractor and I were all ready to go after the weekend, but at 3.30pm on Friday afternoon I was called by the council and told to hold off. Do not worry, the work will get done, but for now, we are back to playing email and phone ping-pong with the highways and rights of way departments. This is of course no fun at all but is also not out of the ordinary when dealing with the civil service!
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