Friends of Great Ashby (FoGA) have been working within Covid-19 rules to keep the pathways safer. On Wednesday just passed (16th December 2020), Herts County Councillor Steve Jarvis, joined FoGA for a walk around, as part of our regular survey of GA with a disabled scooter user, thinking on behalf of parents and others who regularly walk between GA & St Nicholas for schools, shops and the community amenities both sides of St Nicholas park.
Stevenage Borough Councillor Richard Henry confirmed the importance to him and his team of general diversity and specfic commuting issues, across St Nicholas Park.
FoGA are grateful to Cllrs Jarvis & Henry for all of their ongoing support, which has resulted in the funding for the next phase of resurfacing along Bay Lane and past Round Diamond School from Herts County Council. Our thanks are extended to Martin Morgan and Heidi Hutton for their planned campaign to improve cycle routes.
This is important becasue FoGA wish to bring to the all the councils attention, the need to plan in detail, together, for the future developments planned North & East of Stevenage.
Today, 19th December 2020, as part of our we have cleared the leaves and mud that was encroaching on to the slope at the entrance to St Nicholas park from White Horse Lane.
Terry Tyler led the task, see the picture to the left & ensured that it was properly quality assured so that the end result is as set out in the four photographs below.
Cllr Jarvis is seeking to make the slope safer by having railings and FoGA are wondering if we could use some of this land for the Incredible Edible program. https://www.incredibleedible.org.uk/
The paths are clear of leaves and mud, and now much wider for social distancing.
We also understand from Countryside Rights of Way (CRow) that the paths will cleared every 8 weeks, which we will add to our regular audit survery.
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