COUNCIL efforts to deal with a blocked path have been blasted by a parishioner.
Leslie Howard believes workmen should have pruned an overgrown hedge on a snicket linking the main road in Eastburn, near Keighley, with pensioner bungalows.
But he said that instead they widened the path so people have more space to get round the rampant growth.
The 74-year-old Steeton man said: “I couldn’t believe it when I saw that instead of cutting the bush back they’d put more tarmac down.
“It’s a complete waste of money. I reckon I could have cut the hedge back in half an hour.
“How long does it take to dig out the grass, put hard-core down and lay a path?”
The path begins on Main Road, on the Steeton side of Eastburn opposite a footpath entrance to the Airedale Hospital nurses’ flats.
Bradford Council was not available for comment.
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