| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Horrific damage to Boston Manor park | |
| Posted by: | Linda Massey | |
| Date/Time: | 03/10/20 12:42:00 |
| This is not a great start to the spending of the lottery fund. I have now seen for myself what has taken place and will be contacting LamptonGreenspace with the following: 1. We already lost the entire meadow planted by volunteers and destroyed by Junction 2 and the lack of maintenance by Carillion/Lampton 360 2. They have taken out the hedging donated from Trees for Cities and planted by volunteers yet their notice says they are doing the work to attract birds, mammals .... My colleague has pointed out to me this morning that now we have lost the winter food source for small birds. 3. They have taken out most of the blackberry bushes which were well used in lockdown, I know because children were bringing them to us to turn into blackberry muffins. 4. They appear to have taken out two of the 14 black poplar trees planted in the name of Alice Gross - I will ask the gardener to check this in case I am mistaken ..but I doubt it. 5. The walkway has disappeared - the route for people to pass through the park as the meadow area is often too wet to pass (the reason why we also chose black poplar as they likes water). 6. The area has been left very dangerous in that it is now possible to get to the canal from inside the park - any good workman would have hazard taped/fenced off the area. 7. We had to go through a risk assessment process with LBH/Lampton for us to have the community projects working in the park. We were very clear what work we would be doing between now and April 2021. At no time has it been outlined what work was going to take place or that we should remove from our work list. Guy you have provided a link but this gives no detail. We said we were going to re-instate widths of paths and woodchip same. Re-instate over-grown paths. Regain access to memorial trees (14) to include weeding and mulching Trim down over-hanging bramble and dig out near memorial tree. Weed around apple trees and mulch. We only submitted this in July - DID THEY READ IT? 8. The contractors have exposed old litter including broken glass - this in my opinion should have been removed before leaving site, particularly as the area has not been fenced off. 9. The contractors have left the bollards to the area under the flyover down. One of our fears has always been the return of travellers but also those that decide to do wheelies on the long suffering football pitches. We have tyre marks on the carpark from 2 weeks ago so we know the maniacs are around. We are finding more and more often although we are listed as partners in this project that our own views are not taken on board. It does make me continue to wonder - why do we bother. |