Nick Warren (admin)
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 | | 05 Sep 2008 1:57 AM |
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| I was considering the site layout the other day and noticed that with the various planned tracks and paths we have about 85% of an exercise track (running, cycling, walking etc) around the boundary of Arbury Park.
If we could complete the last 15%, I wonder if it might be a really nice facility for residents?
As far as I can tell:
* there's an access path along almost the entire boundary with the A14 - certainly from the hotel to the Guided Busway
* the Guided Busway has a maintenance path that runs all the way along the front of Arbury Park to the corner south of the school
The section that is missing is up the side of Cambridge Road, along the back of the mixed use site, the school and Public Open Space 1 and around to the hotel, although it's possible that the access path extends further west than the hotel...I'd have to check with Gallagher to confirm that.
Well it seems to me that it should be relatively easy to extend the track around the edge of POS1, so all we'd need to do is to work out how to complete the track along the back of the school and around the back of the as yet undeveloped mixed use site. If we can get this in as part of the planning for the mixed use development, then that just leaves the back edge of the school (and there may already be an access path along there anyway!).
We'll need to consult with the school to consider any concerns they might have, and of course the developers may be unwilling to modify any of their plans to allow this...if that's the case, then the track could cut down from the Hotel, along Ring Fort Road and join the CGB maintenance track just by the traffic lights at the Iceni Way slip-road from Kings Hedges Road...
In future years, perhaps grant-aided, we could add exercise elements to the track to allow people to vary their routines with bars and steps etc - perhaps not quite an assault course, but elements to exercise other parts of the body than the legs, heart and lungs!!
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