WHYKE - NEW TREES PLANTED BY JUNIOR WARDENS
District Council Chairman John Ridd put down his papers and picked up a spade recently when he helped a team of Community Wardens, Junior Community Wardens and residents of the Whyke Estate, Chichester, to plant an avenue of trees.
Fourteen Hornbeam and Whitebeams were chosen, by Whyke Estate Community Action, for the new avenue planted along the cycleway that runs across the green at Hay Road.
It’s all part of an ongoing project in partnership with to improve the area which will also provide two improved entrances including seats with designs by children from the nearby Kingsham School etched onto them. Hedgerows will also be planted on the green in the coming weeks.
Over the past two years, improvements at the green have included seating, footpaths, a cycleway, boundary fencing and additional tree planting. Some of these early works were funded by the Seagull Trust. The need for these improvements was highlighted following consultation with the community leading to the creation of a ‘masterplan’ for the green.
Margaret Field, District Council Portfolio Holder for Culture and Sport, said: “The improvements completed so far have already made a difference to this area. I hope that the new trees and other work will impress the judges when they visit Chichester in July to judge the South/South East in Bloom competition, part of the Britain in Bloom competition run by the Royal Horticultural Society.”