We have been working hard to get the path improvement works commenced at the Carrs Nature Reserve.

Over just a few months we managed to raise £60,000 from numerous different sources including: All three of our neighbourhood budgets, the AAP budget, Parish Paths fund, Parish Council, Northumbrian Water, Local Transport Plan, money we recovered from a maintenance reserve which had disappeared in the County Council’s budgets and s106 money which Story Homes agreed to bring forward so we could start work early.

Work will involve clearing out overgrown areas to re-create a dried up pond area, putting in some viewing areas with disabled suitable seating, and creating and resurfacing a kilometre of pathway around the outside of the site. We will also be getting some dropped kerbs installed near NWL HQ and amending the access gates so that they are disabled accessible.

The whole project is going to take a few months to complete and we are chasing all the time to make sure that timescales do not slip.