I've just found this photo of the "meadow" which has been churned up by the packs of dogs let lose on the hill.

The issue is about balance and the purpose of the hill - a community facility and Local Nature Reserve. It is a relatively delicate area that is not going to withstand commercial use - either as a leisure site nor as a nature reserve.

There is no workforce to "maintain" the site other than a community of local people who want to keep the facility, the couple of acres of woodland, on the hill. Events are run throughout the year which look at the birds, moths, trees, bats, fungi etc which inhabit the woods, as well as a number of events about the local history - eg at the top of the hill is a World War One anti-zeppelin gun emplacement, not to mention the great disturbance of 1905.

The substantial number of reports of people, and their own dogs, being threatened by packs of commercially walked dogs are also very disturbing, and clearly discourage people from walking in the woods, which is a bit unfair really.

So for people and for wildlife the woods need a bit of care and consideration. Neither will survive the colonization of the hill for commercial dog walking