Fox Hollies Park in the rain

On Saturday, despite the rain, I joined some local volunteers and an advisor from Waterside Care (part of Britain in Bloom) to have another look at the state of Fox Hollies Park. Some bits need some serious attention - these two pictures show me looking like a drowned rat and gazing upon the collection of rubbish that appears to have been dumped by a local resident. That's too far from the road or path to have been dropped their by a passing fly-tipper, but just right to chuck over a fence. We'll have to get that cleared and I've already contacted the parks team to get them involved with it - it is too difficult for amateurs to have a go at that safely.

The walk also highlighted some potential areas for work and we'll have other agencies down there to try to work with the parks department and local volunteers to see what can be put together to help get the water flowing better under the bridges, which are clogged with rubbish and to stop the flooding that you can see below, making the path impassable at that point unless you want to get wet. I've also been in touch with Amey to find out what they intend to do about the light columns which have been completely wrecked along the footpath over the past few weeks.