FOOTPATHS AND CYCLEWAYS COMMITTEE
Chairman of the Footpaths and Cycleways Committee -
Professor Roger H Leech MA PhD FSA MCIfA
Contact - [email protected]
Members of the Footpaths Committee
Jennifer Adams
Mike Arney, ex footpaths officer for Romsey Ramblers
Janet Burnage, Romsey Future
Paul Gardner
Howard Green, local historian
Robert Grime
Peter Halliwell
Steve Irish, current footpaths officer for Romsey Ramblers
Robert Ormiston
Marion Pickett
Paul Dawkins
Nick Hutson
Viv Messenger, retired town planner
Professor Roger H Leech MA PhD FSA MCIfA
Contact - [email protected]
Members of the Footpaths Committee
Jennifer Adams
Mike Arney, ex footpaths officer for Romsey Ramblers
Janet Burnage, Romsey Future
Paul Gardner
Howard Green, local historian
Robert Grime
Peter Halliwell
Steve Irish, current footpaths officer for Romsey Ramblers
Robert Ormiston
Marion Pickett
Paul Dawkins
Nick Hutson
Viv Messenger, retired town planner
We reported in the last newsletter on the intense use now being made of the public footpaths around Romsey. We have been monitoring closely their use and any opportunities to create new routes.
Footpaths of particular interest are those in and around the Fishlake Nature Reserve. We are looking closely at a recent planning application which talks of the possibilities of adding to the network as one possible gain from a permission being sought for two new houses close to the former World of Water. Many residents, possibly as many as 150 each day, have been using the circular walk from there over to the barge canal and back to Romsey Station.
To assist social distancing, the warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust has been busy cutting back vegetation beside the paths. In many chance meetings that I have been telling fellow walkers of the Romsey and District Society’s plans. We will be discussing with Hampshire County Council, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Test Valley Borough Council as the owner of the Nature Reserve what enhancements to the network of paths might be possible. In this, we have the advantage of being to call on the expertise of the two other RDS committees for Planning and the Natural Environment.
Photographs of Footpaths around Romsey
Roger Leech 22nd May 2020
Footpaths of particular interest are those in and around the Fishlake Nature Reserve. We are looking closely at a recent planning application which talks of the possibilities of adding to the network as one possible gain from a permission being sought for two new houses close to the former World of Water. Many residents, possibly as many as 150 each day, have been using the circular walk from there over to the barge canal and back to Romsey Station.
To assist social distancing, the warden for the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust has been busy cutting back vegetation beside the paths. In many chance meetings that I have been telling fellow walkers of the Romsey and District Society’s plans. We will be discussing with Hampshire County Council, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust and Test Valley Borough Council as the owner of the Nature Reserve what enhancements to the network of paths might be possible. In this, we have the advantage of being to call on the expertise of the two other RDS committees for Planning and the Natural Environment.
Photographs of Footpaths around Romsey
Roger Leech 22nd May 2020
