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Major Investment Program for 2001

The Town Council have just announced their plans for a major new Investment strategy for Birchwood in 2001, 2002 and 2003 to increase the level of Community Maintenance resources and to provide much needed additional play and recreation facilities for Locking Stumps, Oakwood and Gorse Covert. The Community Maintenance Service Resources will soon be increased with the formation of a third team to continue our objective of providing a regular litter and general community cleaning service to make Birchwood stand out, as a clean, pleasant and colourful place to live and work. This service has continued to be developed over the past five years with the original employment of one person to the present four employees operating in two teams. This latest development to three teams will ensure that we can increase the frequency of services across all areas and make a further significant improvement to the environmental aspects of the Birchwood Community. The second major investment development will involve the installation of new hard surfaced multi-use play areas and extra children's play equipment based at each of the local primary schools. Offers to undertake a partnership agreement have been made to each of the School Governor Committee(s) at Locking Stumps Primary School, St. Oliver Plunkett R.C. Primary School, Oakwood Mount Church of England Primary School and Gorse Covert Primary School to allow the Town Council to pay for the installation of facilities within the school grounds. The facilities would be available to enhance our school recreation and play facilities during school term times, but after school hours, at weekends and during school holidays, the facilities will be available for general community use. It is envisaged that eventually each school could have both a new hard surface multi sport play area and new children's play equipment.

Key Developments

We will keep you informed in later editions of the Community News on the detailed installation programme but we hope to start with the first phase at Locking Stumps within the next few months. Other key developments involve new money for new footpaths to be installed, footpath and underpass lighting to be enhanced and numerous other local service improvements. (See more within this Newsletter). The Town Council have also agreed to purchase and develop the old farmhouse Barn adjacent to our office in Delenty Drive. This will provide additional low cost community group facilities as well as enable our Community Maintenance Teams to establish their workplace base and save a great deal of money spent on depot facilities on the Industrial Estate at Leacroft Road. The Town Council believes that this investment using very modest locally raised Council Tax funds, will ensure that much need facilities in Birchwood will be introduced speedily and greatly enhance the quality of life, which the residents deserve.