Gate escape (From Penarth Times)

Gate escape

I HAVE just read the letter of mine that you have published in the Penarth Times (May 9), about stiles and kissing gates in Cosmeston country park. Can I just clarify a few points.

A kissing gate is not a missing gate. Nor is an ordinary gate a kissing gate. Ordinary gates can be left open, allowing stock to escape as well as providing easy access to bicycles.

When the owner of part of the track through Cwm George sought permission to lock the gate between his land and that owned by the Woodland Trust, pedestrian access has to be provided as the track is a public right of way.

Because security of stock and bicycles was required, I asked if a kissing gate could be used to allow easy access to less agile walkers. In dim wisdom the Vale councillors decided that a stile should be put in. This was the whole point of my letter.

Mrs Nina Smith Stoneylands Windyridge Dinas Powys