The new Des Phippen Park in Moor Lane has been designed and a new hedge, 180m long, was planted along the northern boundary on Saturday 27th February.

There were 1000 native hedgerow plants to be planted and 40 people came to help wearing wellies, warm clothing and thick gloves for planting the prickly hedge.

The Management plan for the Park can be downloaded here in pdf format.

The layout is shown here.


Planning the layout of the new park - Cllr Terry Porter, Council Chairman John Coote and Patrick Wilson and Robin Black of the council's partners in the project, Hutton in Bloom	The Moor Lane entrance with markings for the line of the hedge

Bruce Kendall, Terry Porter and Brian Cooper prepare the hedge for planting	Saturday 27 February 2010, 9am, holes dug ready for planting

A demonstration of what we have to do	Brian explains what a spade is!

Robin starts the planting	Marks out of 10?

Planting under way	Fixing the supports for the trees

40 metres completed	The final section underway

4 watching 1!	John Penrose MP watching the planting

Accuracy is essential	When I nod my head hit it!

John Penrose, Des Phippen and some of the Hutton in Bloom team pose for a picture	Time for much needed refreshments

One of the many holly bushes	The hedge is finished, now it's tree planting

7 March 2010 and 12 crab apples appear into the ring outside the white birches	New trees into the line of the hedgerow