FAILURE to complete a section of the Granite Way cycle track through West Devon is 'an accident waiting to happen', according to the owners of a Lydford hotel. Steve Jenden and Loredana Brambini said when they bought Lydford House Hotel in 2004 they were 'delighted' to have their own private access on to the cycle track. Mr Jendon said: 'Before we purchased the hotel we were told the track had just been completed in the past year at a cost of just short of a million pounds and it stretched from Okehampton Station to Lydford. 'We quickly became aware that there was a missing link at Bridestowe Station, preventing the safe and easy passage of cyclists via the rail bridge under the busy A386. Cyclist have to leave the viaduct above Lake and cross the busy road and then cycle along roads in order to rejoin the track the other side of the station. 'It is dangerous and an accident waiting to happen. It would be a shame if the track was completed because of blood being spilt,' he said. Mr Jenden said they had been told by Devon County Council that the land dispute preventing the completion would be 'quickly overcome' and the money was there to complete it. But despite an accepted solution of diverting the track around the gardens of the station, the approved plan had not been implemented. 'There appears to be a complete impotence of the council to pursue a compulsory purchase order to resolve this situation,' Mr Jenden said. Lydford Parish Council is backing completion of the track — it says cyclists take a grave risk by using the A386 along the missing section. Graham Cornish, of Devon County Council, said completing the Granite Way needed 31 agreements — the council had obtained 29. There was just a 650-metre gap to be agreed to complete it. 'Two owners are involved in the gap, and one is prepared to agree,' said Mr Cornish. He said the council was still in lengthy negotiations with the final owner. ' We prefer to come to an agreement whenever possible rather than impose a compulsory purchase order, although we are also pressing ahead with that should it become necessary.' Mr Cornish said he had been contacted by several people asking for the track to be completed and the more community support for it, the better. But the owners of the property in question say they have been 'blighted' for the past nine years. They say they have not heard anything from council valuation representatives since June last year. Timothy Garratt, a chartered surveyor representing the owners of the former Bridestowe Station, Mr and Mrs Dunse, said he had no idea what was holding matters up. No compensation had been agreed. 'As far as I am concerned Mr and Mrs Dunse are sitting and fuming as their property has been blighted by this proposal since 1999: nearly ten years. 'They own the station and a beautiful garden from the station to the bridge on the Tavistock road, which they have worked hard to make. It starts with a formal garden near the house and gradually becomes less formal and more wild; a wildlife haven. That and the quietness of the property will be destroyed,' he said. Mr Cornish said the council had 'bent over backwards' to come up with a suitable scheme for the station, including landscaping. 'You can't see the path from the house and cycleways often create an improvement on wildlife,' he said. Mr Cornish said the county only had a limited number of people to deal with a long and complicated project and resources had been diverted to areas where progress could be made. He said a meeting was due to be set up with Mr Garratt.