[Talk-GB] Stiles in the Peak District missing a stile tag

Philip Barnes phil at trigpoint.me.uk
Mon Mar 29 11:51:27 UTC 2021


On Sat, 2021-03-27 at 01:08 +0000, Adam Snape wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Mar 2021, 17:19 Tim Saunders, <tim_s_63 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My understanding is that the British Standard for stiles
> > (BS5709:2018) stipulates that they should ALL have at least one
> > upright handhold. 
> 
> Yes, but that only applies to new or replacement stiles, which does
> nothing to change all the preexisting stiles.
> 
I would hope that there are no new or replacement stiles as fortunately
many HAs are replacing stiles with gates or kissing gates which makes
the right of way network far more accessible for those with limited
mobility.

Phil (trigpoint)






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