Dates for your diary……. Fri 13th May – last day to buy tickets for the hotpot supper Tues 17th May – next committee meeting Sat 21st May – Hotpot Supper Fundraiser Mon 23rd May to Thurs 26th May – Clean for the Queen (litter picking
Preston City Council’s landscape architects are currently working on a draft plan to show some ideas of park improvements. This should be ready to view at the end of February when we will be taking it out and about for public consultation. Watch this space
The Lancashire County Council contractors are back this week. They will hopefully complete the Belton-Hill to the Railway bridge footpath today. They will then start on the footpath running along the brook from the Railway to Walker Lane.
Works have resumed this week and the path has been relaid from the railway bridge up to the brow of the hill level with the park. Hopefully the rain will stay away and let the ground crew get a decent amount done before Xmas.
Works on the path have been halted temporarily due to the large volume of rain recently. The stone on the paths can’t be compressed when the ground is so completely sodden. Its unfortunate as we were hoping that we’d have a completed path by xmas.
You know the weather is bad when the footpaths turn into rivers!!
It might not seem like anything much is happening at the moment, but your Friends group is working hard behind the scenes gathering info and ideas to put forward to you, the local community. We’ll be in touch in the New Year with some proposals,
Fantastic to see work resuming on the footpath again this week. It has now been scraped back along the full section from the railway bridge to Belton Hill and is much easier to walk along. The next phase of laying the wooden sides and filling