Issue - meetings

The Environment Agency (EA) has advised that, for safety reasons, it wishes to remove the stepping stones from the Hogsmill River unless another organisation agrees to assume responsibility for their ongoing safety and maintenance.

This report considers the role of EEBC in protecting the stepping stones from removal whilst providing a safe crossing point.

Following consideration the Committee resolved to:

(1)           Agree to Option 3: Do not agree to take on the liability for the steps and stepping stones and acknowledge the EA will remove them and agree to deliver a new footbridge as an alternative safer fully accessible crossing point subject to being granted CIL funding and securing additional funding for the design and planning of a footbridge.

(2)           Note the submission of the CIL application for funding the construction of a new pedestrian footbridge.