CHILDREN may have to walk along the busy A596 if a school path is not fixed.

Aspatria town councillors are concerned about flooding in part of Jubilee Walk, which is behind Richmond Hill School.

Aspatria council has asked the county council to resolve the problem.

Aspatria town councillor Dee Turner said: “Children from the North View estate behind the school used to walk down a very muddy path, which was becoming dangerous.

“The county council fenced off the area and the children were then walking around it.

“I, with the help of Home Group Estate, managed to get a new path built, but it was still county land.

“There was a drainage pipe, which was blocked and I unblocked it with my hands.”

She added: “Just because you put a fence up does not mean that the land on the other side doesn’t belong to you.

“Aspatria town council is being criticised for the state of the path, but it has nothing at all to do with the town council.”

At a town council meeting on Tuesday, Cumbria County councillor Jim Lister, who agreed that the land at issue was county council land, said he would find out how to resolve the matter.