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Park Entrances – Scouts, Volunteers and Plants Called! by Andy Cheetham and Josie Brooks

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Sheepfold Entrance To Be Enhanced

As part of the overall vision for the Park the Friends want to create welcoming and well managed Park entrances for a more pleasant experience for all uses. Over the past few weeks some of the Friends, along with Maureen Cooper from the 15th Airedale Scouts, have been working on the project to make this happen.

To date, we have sketched out ideas tailored to the position of each of three entrances, Hillside Steps, ‘Sheepfold’ and Oxford Avenue, and on Saturday 19th May work will commence. If you can make it, please do come and join us, as there will be lots of jobs to be carried out. We are teaming up with the 15th Airedale scouts who will be helping us out as part of their “Scout Community Week” and they will be officially renaming the sheepfold entrance: which at the moment goes by a variety of names including churn stand, old man’s corner, and that ‘funny triangular bit’. Continue reading →

Steps Closed

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Where there's muck, there's ...................

The Hillside steps have been closed temporarily whilst anti-slip paint is put on them, and the top steps are widened slightly.  Chris Gaunt asked if this could be done,  as,  with the mud and snow it might be a worthwhile precaution against slipping.  The steps will be open again, as soon as this is done.  Bellway are also looking at widening and laying a more sturdy path from the steps into the Park,  as the current small, narrow, track gets very muddy and slippery.

We hope these changes will make the Park more pleasurable to use, and open access to more people.

Our thanks to Mr Oxley’s team at the council for improving the path down to Hillside from the steps; a much better job than the first attempt.