Fairfax Avenue verge protection

John Fareham and John Abbott have secured the installation of an additional bollard to prevent drivers cutting across the grass verge onto the tarmac in front of the shops and are working so secure a more substantial long-term solution. This is intended as an interim measure – plans are already in place to use some rocks we have in storage to protect two turning circles on Bricknell Avenue and we have asked the officers to prepare a scheme whereby the largest of these and perhaps some chains are used to provide proper long-term protection for these verges. The underlying principle of both these schemes is that the method adopted should do the job properly but in a manner that is as close as we can get to maintaining or even enhancing visual amenity. The corporate centre still on occasion needs a little recalibration about what that actually entails but we are confident that the time the new bollard should buy us will be sufficient to come up with a scheme that meets our criteria.