Access footpaths and steps badly eroded.
The decline in the appearance of Bachelor Hill which started in 2012 seems to have accelerated recently.
3 years ago the Council promised a new abundance of wild grasses and flowers when they began transporting material from a development site in Poppleton.
Detritus pilled up at Tennent Road entrance
For a while a local friends of Bachelor Hill group struggled to keep the area tidy, but now it is strewn with litter and cans.
The access gates at both the Tennent Road and Askham Lane entrances are broken and obstructed by vegetation.
Bottles cans and litter blight what was to have been a nature conservation area
Footpaths and access steps have been eroded.
In 2013 the Council said that wildflowers would start to germinate that spring. They promised to maintain the area and would continue to cut most of the grass.
In winter a pond usually develops on part of the site.
Askham Lane entrance gate broken
We don’t think that the Councils policy of benign neglect is working. There are still security issues on parts of the boundary which need to be addressed while the wildflower meadow is a bit of a let down.
They must do better than this