I read in the Halstead Gazette Friday July 1 that residents are worried about blocked paths being overgrown in Sible and Castle Hedingham.

Here in Halstead, this will be the second time I have written to say: When are they going down to the Bluebridge Industrial Estate, right on the bend by the traffic island?

You can see the hedge, a lot of it sticks out making the path narrow.

The path on the right is much wider.

The left would be the same if they cut the hedge right back and three weeks ago a car ran into the hedge in two different places and brought more of the hedge out. Lorries have clipped the hedge with their wing mirrors as bits of hedge lay on the ground.

The lorries, they come close to the kerb as they lean to the left coming round the bend and it is dangerous to walk on the path with heavy lorries coming down there.

Are they waiting, the Council, until someone gets hit and knocked down before they cut the hedge back.

They cut the grass with their ride-on mowers every now and again as it grows more this time of year. So do many hedges this time of year, grow thicker, and yet there is no sign of it being cut back.

Like I said before, a tractor with a long arm would soon get it done and also that’s what we pay Council Tax for, to get jobs like this done.

In Sible and Castle Hedingham a spokesman for Essex Highways said, ‘this work is planned as part of our summer programme of cutting back vegetation on our footpaths which is currently underway’.

How come the hedge I have mentioned, nothing gets done about it?

And being on a bend on a main road, even with wet weather a dangerous situation.

Will they be coming here after the Hedinghams paths have been done? I doubt it.