Expect all sorts of chaos next month if Jane Davidson follows her own nose over the Welsh coastal path which the Assembly government is so keen to fund and create.

The environment minister is due to issue a consultation paper, probably around the middle of next month, on what form the path should take.

Wales has a lot of experience of coastal paths – chiefly via one of Britain’s first, the Pembrokeshire one, offspring of that early national park.

Next week sees a massive extension of that path, with Ceredigion county council officially opening an uninterrupted 80 km stretch between the Teifi and Dyfi estuaries. With 20km stretching along previously pathless coast, it has cost £500,000, and taken a decade to create. Continue reading »