Creating Accessible Gardens

One of our residents has requested wheelchair access to our Gardens.

The Committee is now looking to purchase a portable wheelchair ramp for the Hyndland Street entrance.

A lightweight aluminium ramp will be kept padlocked to the inside of the fence by the gate.

The person accompanying the wheelchair user will need to enter the garden, unlock the ramp, and place it in position on the pavement for the wheelchair to be able to enter the gardens.

A copy of the padlock key can be requested from the Committee.

It will be available once the gate repair is complete at that entrance. We will keep you posted as dates are firmed up.

New Lane Signage

A notice will be installed at the entrance to Foremount Terrace Lane warning that no motor vehicles are allowed.

The lane has no foundations and motor vehicles using the lane recently are causing serious damage to the lane surface.

By restricting the lane to pedestrians only this will prevent further damage to the lane, and avoid more serious repair costs in the years ahead.

We are also asking all residents, especially those who live on Highburgh Road, to be aware of this issue and to ensure that motor vehicles used by their household or their contractors do not access the lane.

Garden Works Update

Year-on-year, West Gardens continues to keep our gardens in good order.

During the winter there was tree damage from high winds for them to deal with and at present the lawn is receiving some TLC: aerating, feeding and seeding.

The ‘shrub islands’ are due to have some under-pruning done with new bedding plants put in.

There is also a cleared area by the Crown Road South entrance that has been cut back, where new shrubs will be planted.

Noticeboard is Coming!

It’s all well and good to have some new ways online to keep updated on all the garden news. But as many of you said at our last AGM, nothing can ever replace a good old-fashioned and delightfully retro NOTICEBOARD!

With the better weather here, so many of us will be in the gardens more, so this seems like a good time to install that Noticeboard. It will be with us in May. We will advise on a firm date once we have that confirmed with our joiner.

It will be located at the Hyndland Street end of the gardens, beside two of our three gates, as this attracts the most traffic into and out of the gardens.

Once installed, the committee will be making full use of the space to ensure all of the important updates and news is added, along with general garden guidance and important reference information.

South Fence Update

Many residents have been involved in so many discussions around the southern perimeter fence for the past year and so we wanted to provide an update.

Addison Fencing’s Director came to the gardens in February this year for a site visit. They advised that the bank now needs clearing before the new fence can be installed, such has been the degree of vegetation growth over the last year.

The Committee is at present working with ground clearance companies so that we can receive proposals and estimates for the work. Once the one metre strip (back from the wall) has been cleared, Addison Fencing will be able to move the position of the fence.

In the meantime, the replacement of the wooden borders to the path has been postponed until the existing fence is removed as the wood is likely to be damaged during the dismantling of the fence structure.

We will be sure to keep everyone posted on further progress, and specific dates for each phase of these works well in advance of these going live.