Erik Willenberg is calling for the council to conduct an extensive clean up of the shared pathway, which runs behind homes from Sanctuary Rd towards the primary school on Government Rd.

The pathway is at its worst at the Government Rd end, with the track barely distinguishable underneath a carpet of grass despite a sign pointing to the shared pathway nearby.

The path then disappears into overgrown scrub less than 200m away, before popping back out again to run along Centre Rd.

There are dead tree limbs and debris along the track, which Mr Willenberg said attracted vermin, snakes and mosquitoes as well as posing a bushfire risk.

Mr Willenberg said the issue came to a head in January last year, when he cleaned up some of the debris directly behind his back fence and received a letter from the council asking why he had removed native vegetation without a permit.

He said council was aware of the issue but had done nothing to resolve the problem in 18 months.

"Quite a few people use the path but they have to stop when it reaches the area covered over by scrub and walk on the road,'' he said.

"The road isn't regularly used but when it is, people hurtle down it and you just never know what could happen.

"Where the grass is popping through the gravel is not so bad, but where the start of the track (over grown on Government Rd) it's just a joke.

"We just want the path to get a general level of maintenance like the foreshore track.''

Mr Willenberg said the council did come in and slash the grass on the path, but didn't clean up the fallen debris.

"When the contractors slash they don't bother to slash around the trees,'' he said. "If a tree drops a branch, the slasher goes around the branch and it piles up.''

A Wellington Shire Council spokesman said the council was investigating the ownership of the pathway.

The spokesman said council was currently working with the CFA and other authorities in the development of the Loch Sport Township Protection Plan. "Wellington Shire Council will take guidance from this plan in identifying priority areas for addressing council related fire risks,'' he said.