REGARDING your article Jewel in Crown, I am delighted that the council has money to spend on improving the visitor experience in Tatton.
It is well over due.
However, I think that there are far more pressing priorities than visitor welcome and stableyard facilities.
Firstly on any busy weekend day, it is a miracle that an accident hasn’t happened on the Knutsford entrance road to the park.
It is just not capable of accommodating cars, bicycles, pedestrians, dogs, pushchairs and wheelchairs.
The park should be accessible to all and an all weather path established alongside the road to safely facilitate this or reinstating the Beech avenue with a covered surface which has been successfully done in other large parks such as Dunham.
The other alternative would be to close the Knutsford entrance to cars.
A second major priority is to properly farm the parkland.
A very high proportion of the good grazing land has been lost.
Some taken over by mole hills which are never flattened instead weed grass establishes itself and subsequently pasture land disappears.
Visitors must surely be disappointed by the state of the land and their ability to roam comfortably over the park is being seriously curtailed.
George Tomlins Via email
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