September update...

Just a short one this time. I met with Paul Freeman on the site a couple of weeks ago. We talked about the progress on the public open space (it looks like only the Barratt section is incomplete, with much more topsoil needed to bring up the levels at the southeast corner and fencing to come around the children's play area. The grass seed seems to have taken over much of the upper section and - amazingly - they've even started doing something about the scrappy fence at the northeast corner and the overdue pathway into Watkins Square. The posts are in for most of the tree box, with the section close to Travis Perkins' fence to be dealt with later. Paul and I agreed that we should continue the tree planting tto help mask the fence and perhaps our first community garden project could be to install foliage and bushery (is that a real word? it should be!) along that edge.

Anyway, nothing can happen on site until the whole public open space is legally adopted by the Council and the developers have to finish the damn thing first. So come on Barratt, sort it out - you throw houses up in mere weeks, but it appears it takes you years to build a simple little park...