Decision due on major schemes
Saturday 23rd August 2008, 11:22AM BST.
Oswestry borough councillors will decide next month whether four new community schemes should be given the go-ahead.
The councillors were asked in July to suggest new schemes for the benefit of the community after hearing there was funding of £816,000 available thanks to savings in the council reserves from 2007/08.
Four new schemes have been suggested.
Councillor Vince Hunt has suggested £6,000 should be spent on developing a community garden in Morda, with funding used to buy tools, a water supply and fencing.
Councillor Neil Graham has suggested spending £40,000 on buying land in St Martins for use by the community.
He said the funding could be a grant to St Martins Parish Council and, along with other funding, be used to acquire a plot of land of about 1.25 acres which is currently on the market.
Councillor Owen Jones’s idea is for £6,000 to be spent on putting a fence at Oak Street all-weather play area.
Football and other sports are played there and residents have requested that a fence be put up to stop balls going into their gardens.
Councillor Joyce Barrow wants to see £10,000 spent on improving the car park at Trefonen Village Hall.
Councillors will decide which schemes go ahead at a borough council meeting on September 2.
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