Green scheme scores club a six
Published Date:
16 January 2008
LYTHAM Cricket and Sports Club is undertaking a three year project to improve the non playing areas of their multi sports club.
Officials hope to regenerate the club's existing woodland area by improving the established hedgerows, creating new native hedgerow and planting wild flower meadows.
The scheme is being backed by a number of local and national bodies, determined to see the surrounding areas of the Church Road base transformed.
National groups, the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers (BTCV), the ECB Cricket Force 2008 and the RSPB are all involved in the plans.
Lytham St Annes Civic Society, the Lancashire County Council Green Partnership Scheme, Fylde MP Michael Jack and local councillors Tim Ashton and Louis Rigby are also playing a part in the scheme,
The initiative, scheduled to take three years to complete, has also been designed so that youngsters in the community can take part in shaping the new look ground.
Peter Harris, Lytham Cricket & Sports Club Grounds Chairman, said: "Several schools have indicated their desire to be involved.
"The project complements certain Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme modules and allows participants the opportunity to experience practical conservation work first hand.
He added: "Many students from local schools, conservation bodies and our own club will be involved during the period.
"This project should help improve the whole area for the benefit of people & wildlife alike. It is also our hope that it contributes in some small way towards making Lytham an even nicer place in which to live."
The project is being co-ordinated by Kath Godfrey from the BTCV who already has volunteers working on the site each Tuesday and Wednesday from 10.30am to 3.30pm.
Anybody wishing to join in this activity should report to the BTCV at the ground during this time.
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16 January 2008 7:37 PM
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