As reported in The Press, Earswick Parish Council planned to dig up the hawthorn hedge in Strensall Road on safety grounds claiming the footpath next to it needed to be widened
- but met with opposition from angry residents who set up a petition.
Gill Bradley, whose property has a boundary with the hedge and said it was a home for nesting birds and pollinators, received a letter in July from the parish council informing her of its original intentions and said at the time she was ‘baffled’ by the plans.
The letter said the council had received ‘several complaints about the narrowness of the footpath’ next to the hedge, ‘near misses’ with passing traffic and one incident of ‘someone being hit by a wing mirror of a passing vehicle’.
The hedgerow has been the subject of previous safety claims.
Now, City of York Council has confirmed its maintenance responsibilities for the hedge, which is next to an “adopted highway”.
Officials at the parish council said the hedge will not be removed and parish council documents propose it should engage in dialogue with City of York Council over new crossing measures allowing for the widening of Strensall Road by the removal of double-hatched road markings in the vicinity and its consideration of new traffic controls.
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