My campaigning colleague Chris Beney, who has died aged 93, believed that paths should be wide and accessible. An aviation and computer engineer by profession, he spent much of his life championing accessible paths in Hertfordshire and beyond.
Chris was a trustee of the Open Spaces Society, of which I am general secretary, for 30 years from 1996, and its chair from 2018 to 2020. Representing the society, he was a member of the British Standards Institution’s panel on structures on public paths from 1999 to 2020 (and its chair from 2005), guiding it through three revisions of the standard, and winning agreement for the least restrictive option (gap, gate and stile, in that order).
