Cow Down owners explain fencing of River Itchen banks
THE owners of the riverbank controversially closed to the public have explained their decision. Stretches of the River Itchen between Easton and Itchen Abbas have been fenced off to stop the public from getting to the banks. This sparked widespread anger from some people who have enjoyed it as a beauty spot for decades. Now Nick Owen has written an article published in last month’s Itchen Valley News magazine. Headlined ‘Protection of the River and People’, Mr Owen, also writing on behalf of Andrew Impey and Richard Hunt, wrote: “This section of the river is a Site of Specia...
Source: hampshirechronicle.co.uk