article_snippet: Pedantic council bosses have ordered that a newly laid two-inch high edge to a bridleway be torn up - in case horses trip and fall over a newly laid two-inch high edge to a bridleway.
article_snippet: Buckinghamshire County Council officers have demanded that stud owner Emma Phillips rips up the new public horse footpath stud owner Emma Phillips paid for, after it deemed the granite edging to be a 'trip hazard to horses.'
article_snippet: Buckinghamshire County Council officers have demanded that stud owner Emma Phillips (right) rips up the new public horse footpath stud owner Emma Phillips paid for, after the council deemed the two inch high granite edging to be a 'trip hazard to horses'
article_snippet: stud owner Emma Phillips said: 'All the Phillips family need to do to resolve this problem at no cost to the council is to certify the path, then everyone can move on and stop wasting time and money. '
article_snippet: British Horse Society access and bridleway officer Viv Lynch, added Ms Phillips support, saying: 'As a horse rider, I do not see British Horse Society access and bridleway officer Viv Lynch proposed changes as a problem. '
article_snippet: British Horse Society access and bridleway officer Viv Lynch is good and will not provide a trip hazard for horses.'
article_snippet: The county council, and in effect the taxpayer, will be responsible for maintaining this bridleway and we have a legal and moral responsibility and a duty of care to ensure it is totally safe before we can allow it, so to avoid it becoming a maintenance liability on the council in future years. '
highlights_snippet: But the council deems the granite edging to be a 'trip hazard to horses'
  the granite has now ordered the farm to tear up the two-inch high pathway edge .