Town green will soon be opened
Saturday 8th May 2010, 8:33AM BST.
Oswestry’s controversial new £170,000 town green could be open to the public by the end of this month.
Final work is being carried out on the five acre site on Gobowen Road, which was initially going to house Oswestry’s £30 million health village.
Health bosses had to change their plans after campaigners won a battle to have the derelict land registered as a town green.
The health village is now being developed at former railway sheds nearby while Oswestry’s town green development is entering its final stages.
Shaun Burkey, conservation and community officer with Shropshire Council, said the new town green could be open for use by the public in a matter of weeks.
He said: “It all depends on the weather but it could be open by the end of May or start of June.
“We have still some planting to do and turf to be laid and we don’t want to let people on to the site until the plants and turf are well established in case they accidentally get damaged.
“Our contractors have done a great job bearing in mind the time constraints they were under.”
Information on the project will be given at an exhibition organised by the Shropshire Wildlife Trust on green spaces in Oswestry this weekend.
The exhibition will be held at the former Oswestry railway station today from 10am to 3pm.
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There was a event called Green space held this saturday, which I attended, and was lucky enough to be shown round the town green, which is coming along well, and will look great once the site is finished, but will be better still in another 12 months when the planting etc.. has time to bed in and flourish.
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A very expensive dog toilet!
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Perhaps Amanda would rather dogs and their owners had no green space to exercise and all dog walking and fouling was done on the pavements so she could put her foot in it!!!!
Or perhaps she would do away with all green space? Doe she see Greenspace and think “Dog toilet?” How sad!
I think trees, flowers, kids playing, birdsong, people stopping to talk to each other, wild flowers, butterflies……
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I think dog owners should keep their dogs on their own property and if they haven’t got a garden big enough to exercise their dog in then they shouldn’t have a dog! There is plenty of green space around Oswestry without spending all this money on an area which will become a dog toilet and a place for drug users just as it was before it was developed. Anyone who thinks it is going to be a place for ‘trees, flowers, kids playing, birdsong, people stopping to talk to each other, wild flowers, and butterflies’ doesn’t live in the real world or just goes around wearing blinkers!
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