A music producer has set up an online gallery, Carnage at Blackwater, to illustrate how a new cycle path is “destroying” a nature reserve.

Ray Hayden launched his gallery after work started on the new 1.2km track connecting Vernon Way to River Mead in Braintree.

Two hundred concerned residents have also signed up to the Convent Lane and Broad Road Action Group (CLABRAG), which is campaigning against the cycle path.

A Braintree Council spokesman said: “We’re not going to stop the work.”