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BURY ST EDMUNDS GOES HEAD TO HEAD WITH CHICHESTER

Bury St Edmunds has been nominated as Best Large Town to represent the Anglia Region in the new Champion of Champions competition. The contest is between Anglia in Bloom and South and South East in Bloom, with Chichester in West Sussex chosen as their representative. Judging will take place during the second half of July.

There are lots of new and interesting projects planned for 2009

Bury in Bloom has negotiated with St Edmundsbury Borough Council Highways and Economic Departments to rejuvenate Parkway, in particular the section between Risbygate Street and King’s Road roundabouts. This important town artery is taking on greater significance with the opening of arc and is badly in need of a serious facelift. Now money has been raised to create attractive hard landscaping, interspersed with sustainable shrubs and grasses along the central reservation. Work is scheduled to start in late spring.

We are planning a major new Wildlife area at Nowton Park, in association with The Probation Service Community Payback Project, St Edmundsbury Borough Council, and community volunteers.

There are two exciting roundabout developments planned. Tollgate Triangle, at the junction of Fornham Road and Tollgate Lane is to get a total makeover by Chelsea Flower Show Gold Award winner and local garden designer, Tom Hoblyn.

King’s Road roundabout is to be the subject of a design competition for Bury St Edmunds schools. Students will be invited to draw a design for the roundabout, with the winning entry being plated out on this prominent site. Watch out for more information as work progresses on all the new projects.

There is to be a Middle and Upper schools competition, sponsored by Havebury Housing Partnership, to design a planting scheme for King’s Road roundabout. Watch out for more information as work progresses on all these exciting new projects.

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