Barton Greenways Update

Following on from our meeting between Peter Blake (Interim Director of GCP), Jonathan Camp (Senior Project Manager GCP), business leaders, farmers representatives, and local councillors last Friday, it was agreed that New Road should remain closed until Greenways works are completed on that stretch (phase 1).

A further meeting was held (Thursday 24 May) with the GCP team, Milestone Area Manager, CCC Streetworks and Permitting team, Barton Business and Barton Parish Council representatives. The contractor (Milestone Infrastructure) revealed that New Road works will now not be completed until 11 June as they had to action remedial work and redesign sections near to trees. Plans for phase 2, 3 and 4 were also discussed. Robust talks and some hard truths presented to the participants from Barton representatives with subsequent intervention from CCC Streetworks Manager, means that action to speed up remedial work on New Road will happen. A detailed review of plans for the next phases (2, 3 and 4) will be worked on over the weekend and Bank Holiday for a face-to-face site visit and review next week.

Barton Parish Council would like to thank Lisa Reddup (our District Councillor) and Chris Morris (new County Councillor) for their support in ensuring these meetings with the GCP take place.