The work being started on the tow path between St. John’s and Woking is routine maintenance. Three dead trees are being taken out and dead wood pruned out of another six trees. The lovely row of oaks is not being rooted out.

Between Kiln Bridge and Parley Drive two sections of the bank are going to be restored where they have eroded in the past and narrowed the tow path.

The application for planning permission to widen and improve the tow path more generally has not yet been decided. If it is allowed, the present maintenance work may overlap with these changes, but it is not pre-empting the planning process.