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SHAW
Fifty year scheme to turn tip into park well underway
There used to be a joke that Swindon QAkAu 6 .6r
must be one of the few towns with a
sewage works and a refuse tip in its
midst. Perhaps there still is!
Although the sewage works at HAIRDRESSING
Barnfield Road will remain a fea-
ture, Shaw tip is now being turned AT HOME
into a country park on the edge of
WestSwindon as development work 18 years experience
in North Swindon gathers pace.
Since October truck loads of spoil
excavated from the roads and sew- Specialist products used
ers being installed north of Haydon
Wick have been arriving daily at Te': (0793) 615461
Shaw tip. West Swindon
By the end of February over a
quarter of million tons will have
been moved in the first phase of the
project to eventually cover the 112
Matthew Hawkins, in at the beginning of a long term project
acre tip in readiness for tree and
shrub planting. through to the rubbish below. Be- end of 1994 and will see some wood-
Although a small part of the tip is cause of the weight from the spoil, a land areas quite mature in five to ten PFS
still being used, most of the site was permanent pipe system is being in- years. But it'll take about 50 years
used from 1974 until 1986 when it stalled into the rubbish layer to al- before the whole site is completed." SECURITY
closed to allow land settlement. low gas and sludge to be drained off He said that extensive woodland SYSTEMS
In charge of turning the tip into a and treated." planting of mixed indigenous trees INSTALLATION &
park is Matthew Hawkins from As part of the first phase of devel- is planned to encourage wildlife to
Thamesdown Council's Commu- opment, earth mounds around the take over. Features such as a large MAINTENANCE OF
nity Forest team said major engi- edge of the site are being shaped to events space, footpaths and cycle INTRUDER-FIRE
neering work has to be completed mask the site from houses in Shaw ways, and a major play area were
before tree plantingtakes place. The and Sparcells. Over the next ten being considered. ALARM SYSTEMS
site has been capped with a metre of years some one and a half million The proposals are being left vague 74 Victoria Road, Swindon
clay as part of the tip restoration tons of spoil will be moved from the deliberately so that public comment
scheme. The spoil from the north- northern development to the coun- can be made at a meeting planned Tel: (0793) 642792
ern sector will form a three metre try park site. The Council has made for April when a report of progress
thick layer so that there will be no a deal with the house builders which since the first public meeting last NACOSS Approved Installer Intruder Alarms
chance for tree roots to penetrate will pay for the park. Spring will be made.
"The developers need somewhere
to tip the spoil from construction
COOKS work and the Council is charging
for the use of the site," said Mat- zz arama
TV& ploughed back into turning derelict Takeaway & Home Delivery Service
thew. "The income is being
VIDEO land to good use. The tip will be- Shaw Village Centre • Tel: 874844
come a major green element in the
River Ray Country Park stretching
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