Team Stamford’s Neil McIvor and Nina Van Dyck cut back overgrown hedge in Uffington Road, Stamford

People have taken matters into their own hands and cut back a hedge blocking a main road path.

Having seen an article in this week’s Mercury, and having been contacted by people directly, Team Stamford volunteers Neil McIvor and Nina Van Dyck were busy in Uffington Road, Stamford this morning, trimming back the overgrowth.

Stamford Town Council has responsibility for the upkeep of the hedge and had said it was waiting until September 1 to ensure birds had finished nesting before trimming overgrowth from the path alongside Uffington Road.

But in a social media post this morning, Neil wrote that it was a “preposterous situation” and “madness” to make people walk on a road that has a 50mph speed limit.

He added: “We have been contacted about these bushes by several people and we have asked them to log it on Fix My Street. Turns out it's all a waste of time.

“After reading the Mercury this morning we cut it back to a safe distance for people to walk safely and not on the road (we checked for nesting birds first).

“So again we prove in this town if you want a job doing. Do it yourself.”

Fix My Street is a national portal for people to log problems with roads, paths and street lighting, which is monitored in this area by Lincolnshire County Council.

Clerk to Stamford Town Council Patricia Stuart-Mogg said: “Neil McIvor and Nina Van Dyck are always there to support the town and the council is most grateful for all their effort. This is a hedge which requires further attention by the council’s contractors.”

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