After huge amount of hard work over several days the path along the river at Kingswood, badly slumped, has been re-opened by Worcestershire Country Council.  our Area Officer Jonathan White was full of praise and very impressed by our efforts, here is his email:

Hi John

I had a walk through the riverside last Thursday and the path is looking much better. I was particularly pleased with the new steps at the south end, a good job well done. In some places, where you have used random tree branches to support the surface of the path, this will need regular future monitoring to check that the edge of the path is still capable of holding up a person walking near the edge, are you/the pnones okay to do this?

I have removed the closure notices.

It has been very good to work with your group to get a new path open after the huge landslips.

If you are interested in doing this type of work in the future, we could save additional money if the work could be completed within 21 days, I know this puts extra pressure on everyone, but the cost savings are much greater if we remove the need to have a Temporary Closure Order (up to 6 months) we can still close the path under an Emergency Closure Order (21 days), the saving would be over £1000 for every 6 month period.

Best regards

Jon