Whiteash

I feel that it is very short sighted of the Forestry commission to remove dog poo bins from all of their sites! As dog owners who wish to act responsibly, encouraged by the council by the provision of free poo bags, how negative and backward thinking is it to remove the disposal receptacles for this purpose? Especially when you have the audacity to then charge for car parking!!! This is NOT improving facilities, as has been mentioned previously, this regressive "improvement" leads to paths and walks being littered with dog faeces or worse still, abandoned full poo bags by very frustrated dog walkers!!! I for one take them home but it is very stupid to remove these bins. From an angry, forward thinking dog owner.

Visited whiteash to spend the day in the winding walks. Thwarted by the unadvertised parking charges as I didn't see the need to bring money to a forest. I wonder how much money this initiative will generate compared to the amount of people who shall never visit these woods again.

I own one the annual passes for the foresty walks as I use the Whiteash Woods a few times every week to walk my dog. I have no problem paying if it goes to the upkeep of the paths etc. But what I have a problem with is....... we are paying this money and there are no Bins or even Bins for dog waste. At the start there is rubbish everywhere and on the trails dog boo bags dumped everywhere. Do you not think we should use some of this money going towards Bins. We are not even into the summertime yet and I can only see this problem escalating.