barbed wire - legal?

Exactly, she says she has found full poo bags that have been thrown over but also she says that dog walkers routinely destroy the fence and tried to pull the previous fence down so that they can walk in the field rather than on the track. I said to her I had never seen any evidence of anyone having been in that field and I've never seen anyone walking dogs in there, not sure why she thinks we've got the energy or agility to climb over the fence to walk our dogs! With or without extra fencing and barbed wire ;)

I don't understand why people would throw full poo bags into a field. But then I don't understand why people allow their dogs to foul on the playing fields at Mill Meadow and not clean up, it is disgusting but they do! I'm not sure how she could stop people from throwing poo bags in there though?

Edited by EmmaO - 20 November 2015 at 5:20pm

EmmaO wrote: .... and tried to pull the previous fence down so that they can walk in the field rather than on the track. I said to her I had never seen any evidence of anyone having been in that field and I've never seen anyone walking dogs in there, not sure why she thinks we've got the energy or agility to climb over the fence to walk our dogs! With or without extra fencing and barbed wire ;)

Yes you are right in that the track is just a mud track and it gets very muddy so something could be done about that however! The barbed wire is at mid chest/shoulder height immediately next to the public footpath, anyone slips, trips, falls off a bike, steps backwards without thinking, reaches out for any reason they are going to grab it, it's instinctive. The path doesn't have to be muddy for any of these things to happen. I think she's got so mad with people using her field that she's popped it up without thinking it through and now is between a rock and a hard place as the vandalism she is experiencing is escalating.

She has emailed me today saying she has some specialists coming out to look at what she has done and give her guidance and then she'll make a decision and get back to me.......

I hope people stop vandalsing her stuff because that's just going to make her more desperate to protect it, understandably, and the discussion about the barbed wire is going to drag on and on.

Edited by EmmaO - 23 November 2015 at 12:25pm

I agree with some of what you are saying Art. but I don't know if the first paragraph is correct.  There is no doubt a responsibility on the user.  There is also a responsibility on the landowner especially as the issue of the hazard has been raised publicly.

Where there is something that is hazardous and no means of hazard removal / 'design out' have been put in place then things can get tricky