Editor

The fact that the Ceredigion Coast Path between Aberporth and Tresaith has been closed due to a massive landslip is very worrying, but it was also very predictable!

I walked that section of coast path two years ago and that location looked highly dangerous then. It was obvious that a landslip was probable, not just possible, at any time.

It is extremely fortunate that there were no fatalities. After all, this is the only section of the county’s coast path which has been made wheelchair friendly through tarmac surfacing.

However, what is most worrying is that this twomile section is the only section of the 63-mile long Ceredigion Coast Path that was subject to Construction Design and Management Regulations before it was opened over a decade ago. Unbelievably, none of the rest of the coast path has any CDM documentation, including sections like Llangrannog/ Cwmtydu, which was also closed by a major landslip in 2014.

The Diversion Order coastal footpath they opened on my land at Clyn-yr-ynys, Gwbert, in September 2014 is far more dangerous-looking than the Aberporth/Tresaith section because there is a 100-foot vertical crack, two feet wide in the shale cliffface.

Lyn Jenkins Clyn-yr-ynys Gwbert, Cardigan

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