Lord Mayor and local Councillor Sue Galloway will be officially opening the new Lidl store on Thanet Road.

The ceremony will take place at 8:00am on Thursday 3rd February.

Lidl is a supporter of the British Heart Foundation charity.

 

First details have emerged of the planned Grange Lane park playground.

Residents were given a chance to express their opinions at the Sanderson House meeting on 13th December.

Now the design is being refined before installation work starts in the early spring. The scheme incorporates the “pulley” which proved to be the favourite piece of equipment with respondents to our recent residents survey.

NB. Official tests have now confirmed that there is no contamination hazard at the former tip site to the rear of Westfield Place.

Metal railings will be erected on the Vesper Drive side of Bachelor Hill starting on Monday 17th January.

The work is intended to stop people “short cutting” from Vesper Drive into the amenity area. The railings will be similar to those provided on the opposite side of the hill.

That may be the last of the railings programme for now as residents, in the recent Ward Committee budget ballot, did not give a high priority to the scheme for 2011/12.

Further work may be possible in later years if neighbouring residents continue to report trespassing problems.