Building about to start - Booker Avenue

Some time ago, South Liverpool Housing got permission to build some new homes on the bit of land at the junction of Greenhill Road and Booker Avenue (not the former petrol station, the other bit).

The idea is for the new homes to be shared ownership.

Anyway, the land transfer's finished now and there's a contractor ready to start.  So the building should start next week (beginning 11 November).

So if you see people at work on the site, that's what they're doing.

The conditions agreed for the development are in a report on the Council website at this link  (you need to scroll down and click on Decision Notice).  This includes info about the hours that building work (audible) can go on.  Basically it's restricted to between  8 am and 6pm on a weekday and 8 am and 1pm on  a Saturday.

Be gone weeds!

 

 
 
 
 

I spent part of today working on two of the planters on Long Lane in Garston.

These have been there for a couple of years now but for the last year or so no one has really looked after them (although they have been watered - thanks to local businesses).

Friends of Garston Park have now raised some money to replant these and some of the other planters around the area.

I'm one of a team of volunteers who've agreed to do planting and maintenance and I've "adopted" the two planters roughly outside Monty's café (bit of an agenda with that choice!)

So today I pulled out a bagful of weeds (one planter had rather become a thistle paradise) and started planting.  We'll all be adding to our planters over the months and years with the aim of helping brighten up the area and preventing them getting quite so neglected again.

(It's worth saying that the planters themselves were donated , along with soil, by Enterprise Liverpool as part of an initiative I kicked off when a Councillor to do with the Woolton Road/Long Lane patch).

The picture shows one of the planters on the day they were first planted up.  I helped and was joined by Cllr Richard Oglethorpe.  I'm hoping that when I've finished, my two will look nice like this rather than like something out of I'm a Celebrity.

(This is just one of the initiatives by Friends of Garston Park.  If you want to get involved let me know and I'll  pass your details on.  Not everything we do involves being out in the rain!)

Indoor Christmas market in Garston

The Family Support Hub is planning a series of days giving people a chance to  buy, and sell, things in the run up to Xmas.  It starts later this month at the Village Hall on Banks Road.

Here's the link to the Facebook page with the information.

Bankfield house site - housing going ahead

The Council's planning committee earlier this week gave permission for a housing development on the site of the former Bankfield House in Garston (corner of Banks Road and Brunswick Streeet)

The information's in these committee minutes (you'll need to scoll down quite a bit)

The digger's already on site!

Friends of Garston Park adopt the planters

I'm just back from a meeting of the Friends of Garston Park.

We're adopting some of the planters in L19 to keep them weeded and to replant.  I've come away with two lots of bulbs and some winter plants.. and we'll be following up with others.

The planters have been added to our area over a few years but some are sadly in need of some TLC.

Local shopkeepers have kindly watered them but it's time for a refresh to help them look better.

We've divided them up, taking on a couple or a few each. I've got two on Long Lane (conveniently near one of my favourite local cafes)

If you want to get involved in Friends of Garston Park and want info, drop me an e mail and I can pass your details on.  I am at paulakeaveney@yahoo.co.uk

Brodie Avenue phone mast application back

Earlier this year an application to make some changes to the phone mast opposite 192 Brodie Avenue failed because of the lack of a plan about how the nearby trees were going to be protected.

The applicants have put another plan in, with what looks like the missing information.

The form is incredibly difficult to read but it looks as if the mast will be replaced with one a bit higher and there'll be a new cabinet too.

You can now comment on line and there's a deadline in mid November.  Info is at this link.

The vast bulk of the material is in a section called Related Documents which is at the bottom of the page.

A Garston Poem

This is the poem that was written by Mike Axworthy for the Friends of Garston Park art project .  You can see it on the boards around the sports pitches.

Mike also read the poem at a recent Friends of Garston library event.

I thought blog readers might like to see it.

GARSTON HAS CHANGED

From Salt works to satellite dishes

Garston has changed

From rural idyll to industrial giant

Garston has changed

Like the river it stands on it flows and grows

Garston is changing

From Ireland Scotland Wales the world they came

Garston is changing

A special place to live work and play

Garston has changed

Plenty of jobs in its docks factories and railways

Garston has changed

Look at its schools church and hospital

Garston is changing

Is it regeneration or degeneration?

Garston is changing

A proud and independent people

Nothing has changed

With a strong community spirit

Nothing has changed.

Michael Axworthy.