Was out riding a few weeks back on a hot day, passed some waterfalls and had a flashback of swimming in the very spot as a nipper. People used to come from miles to picnick there.
Only now it is all keep-outs and barbed wire. Turns out some nuvo with pretensions bought a detatched nearby, didn't like the sound of riff-raff anymore so bought up the river bank. The village shop lasted about 6 months.
The thing with the school is down to threats and risks of legal costs, some c*ck in our village and his solicitors had the parish council wetting their pantz for months with empty threats but the council solicitors are a waste of space. They cave in on anything because they don't know how to manage or assess risk properly.