Have a read of all the info on the website…what is there was a struggle to get and wasn’t plucked from the air…the requirement to prove a need was rather heavy and it had to try to do everything for everyone – which it doesn’t do. What it does do is prove that the need is there and should be developed further – to allow multiple trails to be built and allow multiple gradings of trails…the need has been proven but due to some narrow-minded opinions of some people, this has been killed.
There may be a chance to resurrect what it there, but the drive has gone so no-one is going to go knocking on the doors to get it going again…and after reading through the documentation on the site, it would have to be a very thick-skinned and dedicated person to overturn all the obstacles to get it going again.
It’s been killed off and is probably not going to ever be sorted…the start of the round-the-reservoir trail was meant to be completed at the beginning of 2008 – then we were told it would be done by Easter…then Summer…then before the New Year…so far nothing has been done to the trail line – no machinery, no scoping (other than the stuff done by CVDG) – so it is blatantly clear that although they claim things are happening, nothing is actually happening.
It’s a real shame as most folk think what is there just now is it…nothing else to be done, truth it, what is there was simply a starting block…but we were never given the chance to build on it (even though we had approval from Senior Management)…