A FEW years ago the Bury Times covered a story on local bird-watchers, better known as "twitchers", being up in arms because the hedgerows around Elton reservoir were being trimmed during the nesting season. Quite right too. There's a time and place for everything, as my old mum used to say.
However, since then the hedges that were trimmed every one or two years have never been trimmed again!
The definition of a "hedge " is a fence or boundary formed by closely planted bushes, not trees, and a hedgerow is "a row of bushes to form a hedge". Bushes are not meant to be 20 feet high and these are now unsightly and spreading into the footpaths. How high and wide do they have to get, and whose responsibility is it to trim them?
Please try to keep are usable footpaths clear. So many are overgrown and unusable and Elton reservoir was an ideal walking place when foot and mouth prevented other public footpaths being used.
OLD CROW
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