A COMPROMISE has been reached after an 11th hour cancellation of plans to reopen a paths network.
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) last week called on Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council to freeze plans to reopen footpaths, just days before the proposed lifting of restrictions on many rights of way across east Cleveland.
The council yesterday announced revised proposals on the reopening of footpaths, following talks with Defra.
It will see all paths in Redcar, Marske, Saltburn, Brotton, and the urban areas around Eston, open by next Friday. The paths remaining closed will form a buffer between the borough's non-infected areas and the Esk Valley, where there has been a case of foot-and-mouth.
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