Riverside walk was great disappointment

Last week I decided to take a walk along the river walk from Emscote Road to Warwick Park. Nothing could have prepared me for the litter and overgrown paths I encountered.

Behind and to the side of the Grange Close apartments are fallen trees which have just been left and therefore obscure the river view.

Walk a little further and the steps to the canal bank and the culvert stream are overgrown with waist high weeds.

Under the aqueduct you have to dodge a wet path from a leaking bridge before getting to the back of Tesco. What an absolute disaster, so different from what was promised when they originally applied for planning permission. A meadow will be planted with seating for people to sit on whilst on their walk was what we were told! What happened to that?

Perhaps it is something they will do when they complete their latest extension to their store. How sad such a prime site ends up looking like a rubbish tip.

I carried on under the train bridge to find a path so narrow with high nettles either side that to walk it you have to fold your arms or get stung.

The remainder of my walk was much as I remembered it but it had already been spoilt by the lack of maintenance along the way.

I lived in the area for 40-plus years and can’t believe something that cost quite a lot of money from public funds to complete can have just been abandoned.

Perhaps not as obvious to the eye as adding extra bits of block paving in Warwick or rearranging the tip which has now created chaos on occasions, both of which could have been done without. The ramps at the tip are a sure way of testing vehicle suspension! Horrendous unless in a van or 4X4!

I have been told that we now only have one maintenance team for trees in the area but feel perhaps another is badly needed so that fallen trees can be removed and not just left to rot.

Perhaps Warwick District Council should alter its website for the river walk explaining it is not as advertised. - Janet Langston, via email.