By TANIA PHILLIPS
TENTERFIELD’S Main Street project is powering towards completion with the community assisting the local council to apply the finishing touches.
On Tuesday 8 April, Tenterfield High School students were on site at the High Street corner en masse to install nearly 2000 shrubs and groundcovers.
The remainder of the planting continued from there with the council’s parks and gardens crew and the Tentefield Digger’s Club.
“It is great to see the enthusiasm for the project now that the tree planting has started and we can start to see what the architect has planned,” mayor Peter
Petty said.
“This is the community’s asset and it is great to see how involved the community has become. The project has been built by locals, the benches, bins and plants are all locally supplied and we have the school and local clubs involved.
I am already stopped by visitors to let me know how much more welcoming our town has become with trees and plants instead of walls. I am really looking forward to seeing the end result.”
Last week the RMS will start the resurfacing of the CBD, which was delayed due to wet weather and to allow for the Oracles of the Bush festival to conclude.
“We have a busy few weeks coming up,” engineering services director Dr Dennis Gascoigne said.
“We have the trees and plants going in and RMS asphalting, but we also have the ongoing works at the post office with the granite steps arriving at the end of April, the benches, bollards and bins will start to be installed in a couple of weeks, line-marking and updated parking signage happens after Easter, and interpretive signage for the corners at Manners Street still need to be finished and installed.”
It is expected that RMS will linemark the central business district immediately after Easter with the 40kp/h zone implementation to take place either late April or early May.
