YOUR edition for week ending November 5 carries an article headed "Cycle track proposals splitting village.' The article misquotes what I said to a degree which completely misrepresents my views.
I did say that in principle the multi-use track seemed a good idea, but that there were clearly serious inconsistencies in the Sustrans application. I recommended that the application should not be approved until and unless all of the ambiguities and omissions in the submitted documentation had been satisfactorily resolved. I did not say "The path will totally change our environment, something I consider very precious. I think the cycle track will change it forever and ruin it, and it is much too unique to do that." That incorrectly attributed text does not represent my position on the cycleway. (If I had said that then, given the apparent balance of opinion in the meeting, I would have received a standing ovation. There was no applause!)
– Bob Brown, Hewelsfield.