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tions yet again, and the council
has been working with many part-
ners also tasked with the roads
projects to ensure suitable deliv-
ery.
• Street scape – road draining has
improved where previously there
were not a lot of storm drains,
whilst water is being captured and
recycled much more resourceful-
ly. Wonderfully, there are also rose
gardens dotted in previously bar-
ren land.
• Solar panelling – the Council is
very much green driven and so
went full steam ahead in apply-
ing solar panels to the community
centre, and around 40% of the en-
ergy gathered actually goes back
into the mains grid. “We want to
install something similar onto the
council’s administration centre,
and hopefully start to see some
of the cost savings the community
centre is seeing,” affirms Fardon
• Community gym - the town has a
very strong and active community
gym committee who approached
the council after researching sim-
ilar sized town, and presenting
evidence for the needs of such