Items on the list at the moment with rough order of magnitude costings are:
Scheduled Maintenance rolling programme for the upkeep of Council properties/boundary fences/infrastructure - £20,000.
To replace the play area of Nelsons Gardens - £50,000.
This is the oldest set of play area equipment in Hedge End and due for replacement.
Sports Walls, Turnpike Sports Field and Greta Park - £15,000.
Informal sports facilities to discourage the use of recently renovated building frontages for football games. (The picture shows one recently installed at Dowd's Farm Park.)
Kanes Field Grazing - £10,000.
Improved fencing and land improvements to enable land earmarked for a new cemetery to be hired out for grazing in the meantime.
Planting and repair of village centre Brick Planters - £5,000.
Heritage sign - £3,000.
Probably to be installed in Lower Northam Road.
To replace the village centre notice board, donated by the late Ms. Violet Cook - £1500.
Paddling Pool seating/picnic tables - £3,000.
A couple of years ago, the HE Gardening Club offered to look after the planters and provide the plants but the Council wouldn't let them for 'health and safety' reasons! At the time I thought it a shame as the Gardening Club would have produced a good result in a project in which local people took pride thus fostering community spirit. The added bonus was it would have been at minimal tax payer's cost.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comments. All these points will be discussed over the next couple of months, so it is good to get other points of view. The £ figure will get refined as well - these are just first guestimates at the moment.
ReplyDeleteInteresting point about the planters. I have a feeling that to dismantle them, remove the rubble and soil and make good the paving would be even more expensive than to repair and plant them up with some shrubs and perennials. Especially if volunteers are willing to take them over.