I am writing to update you about the situation in Sralagagh, Ballycastle, where the road over your lands had become dangerous for people using the right of way.
As you you can see from the photos, some well meaning, but poorly conceived repairs have been done by people locally. They seem to have used gravel to fill up the cavity that had developed in the bridge and make it passable again. However, these repairs resulted in a blockage to the drain, which then overflowed and tore the side off the bridge on the downstream side.
Basically, what would have been a relatively minor repair a few months ago when I first wrote to you, has now become a more expensive job. The bridge is likely to deteriorate further with every heavy rainfall.
I urge you not to delay in doing something about this as the bridge is still dangerous and the side of it could give way under any vehicle at any time.
