Volunteers get together for another big tidy-up

RESIDENTS of Cinnamon Brow, Houghton Green, Fearnhead and Orford got together again to continue the big tidy-up undertaken over the past weeks by volunteers.
Their efforts were concentrated on the pathways leading from Grasmere into Peel Hall Park where the paths had again been lost to overhanging trees and branches and sprawling grass and vegetation on the paths were making it unsafe to negotiate.
The group welcomed some new faces, and everyone got stuck in to tidying up the paths in question.
Group organiser Jon Parr said: “We massively appreciate that people are giving precious time up, but that only goes to show just how much people love the area in which they live and how strong our community spirit is. We set aside a couple of hours to try and chip away at projects like this, but when 14 people turn up kitted out and raring to go, the end result in those two hours is amazing and I’m incredibly proud of everyone who has helped to date”.
Jon said local residents in the past few weeks, have achieved more for the park than the borough council have in the past two years.
He said: “There are bridle paths completely lost and buried by overgrowth, sets of steps that you would not know existed had you no historical knowledge of the park and bridges and paths that are ‘an accident waiting to happen’.
“In the space of a few weeks, we have addressed and dealt with these issues and the outpouring of appreciation from the residents has made it all the more worthwhile”.
The group aim to maintain the momentum to date and focus their attention on completing a couple of more sessions on Peel Hall Park before dealing with other areas in need of attention.