Yeah, they've done that here too, in just the last week. Not 50m from a very old sett I watch.
Horrible things and the parents who demand that their kids have the *right* to use them on nature walks, quiet woodlands and the like, are cretinous.
The nature walk here runs less than 10m from my house gable end. I stepped out onto the path and told the child to go and get his parents. His father arrived screeching and shouting and threatening me with, "His mother will be round to see you!" I told him she'd be welcome, but I was phoning the police now since this was a nature *walk* not a motorcycle track and he was well out of order encouraging his child to behave in such a way.
Beggar sloped off red faced and furious and we haven't seen hide nor hair of them since.
They didn't even live round here, but they thought the walkway would be a good place for their brat to learn to ride his minimotortrike thing.
Time and place, and this was neither.
Report it, complain, if no one does anything official then nothing changes. Contact the local paper, the greenspace officer and the police.
The council installed metal styles each end of the walkway. Bikes get through and with patience (it's very muddy at the start) so can motorised wheelchairs. Mostly it's just folks out for a walk with the grandkids or the dog.
Just now it's full of a group of kids building dens
They've got two big labradors with them and their leashes have the kids wrapped round every tree in the place trying to hang onto them
cheers,
Toddy