Over the past few weeks, we have carried out quite a lot of work around the south pond that had been suggested to us by park users.
We have repositioned the wooden fencing above the swale that runs parallel to Coronation Avenue and removed the fencing from around Mawson’s Field, allowing access to a large area for the first time in over a year.
We’ve put in new steps from the stepping stones into Mawsons Field from Coronation Avenue and have started work to make the muddy approach to the stepping stones more accessible.
All of the shrub and tree planting in this area is complete and new permanent hooped fencing has arrived on site ready to be fitted in the next few weeks. We’ve even had some ducks and a grey heron move in!
Sadly we haven’t managed to make progress with the work on the playing pitch above the north pond, or on Reservoir Field. There is a lot of earth that we need to shift and the winter weather has made this an impossible job. As soon as we get a little bit of dry weather, we will remobilise the contractor and their machinery to get this project done.
Thanks again for your continued patience. We think you’ll agree that some areas of the ponds are now beginning to look how we envisaged but we know there’s a long way to go.