Land testing for what?
Having the Grange fields (between Fetival park and Burslem) close by to where I live, other neighbours and myself are interested in knowing what will happen to them. Over the years there have been many council ideas/plans to build houses and roads across the green pastures .
Renew (the failed regeneration scheme for Stoke-on-Trent) also wanted to build houses onto the fields .
At a recent residents meeting the newest council idea was "aired" that there was going to be a relief road built for the festival park site. There were 3 routes but the cheapest option iwas to build a road across the fields,and across to Enoch St pass St John Church then up to Moorland road.
The other options a road over the cannal and railway to join the A500 (a much better option) and 3rd option that the road would come out by F M Guinness'.
The road would cost 1.2 million and would be in place 12-18months .
At the residents meeting this week- the road was on the agender because if the road did go across the fields and up to moorland road it would also be very close to council owned bungalows for the elderly . who as you might think are not happy to have a busy road by them.
Councilor Allan Dutton reassured the concered residents at the meeting, that the road was not going along the Grange fields.
When asked why were there man and equipment land testing on the fields - he said
"its something that the council have to do now and again"
Today the men came back to the Grange with drilling equipment for the purpose of
"testing!!"
As a resident the question is- WHAT FOR?
But Stoke-on-Trent people are famillar with this council saying one thing and doing something else.
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why on earth do we need
why on earth do we need another road on and off Festival park? are the 3 entrance/exits already there no longer suitable?
tell em to bog off Dereth. we shouldn't allow the council to keep taking our greenspace. plus where on earth will they find the money to build another road. they struggle to maintain the ones they have.
Always thought the new access
today two more
today two more workmen holding paperwork/ land maps in hands have been looking at the spots where the ground testing was done .
redgirl wish the residents could tell them to Bog off and that would work.
IT is very unlikely that it
IT is very unlikely that it is any serious like a road, as the testing equipment is only shallow depths.
It looks like goephysics to me, which is sometimes used to test for minor land movements caused by mining.
I know there is a program of minewater flood prevention plans as seen in ford green.
there are certainly now plans or applications for that area been submitted in the last 2 years.
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