SRA Annual Report 2021-22: Chadmead
Somerset County Council’s Rights of Way Department asked the SRA for a one-off grant for fixing an unstable section of the bank of Bankland Stream, where it runs alongside part of the track that connects Northmoor Corner and Kitches Lane in Chadmead.
The SRA approved this request, because although the track is classified as a public footpath, it has previously been used, and may be used in future, as a vehicular access route to and from Chadmead in times of flood.
The owners of adjoining land were consulted, a scheme specification was prepared, and, in summer 2021, L8 interlocking trench sheets were installed, and the top of the bank was reprofiled. (Text continues below images).
A few remaining improvements – such as levelling and surfacing 13 metres of the route – are due to be completed in summer 2022.
The SRA is paying for this work with the remains of a grant originally given towards Somerset’s 20 Year Flood Action Plan by what used to be the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), now the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC).