The big change coming to Bedworth’s Miners’ Welfare Park everyone will notice

There’s a big change coming to Bedworth’s Miners’ Welfare Park that everyone will notice. More preparatory work for the new Bedworth Physical Activity Hub will start on Tuesday (May 28).

In three weeks, new paved paths will be installed in the park. These will act as a temporary southwest access point and as the main circular route within the park.

This is before work begins on the new hub, which will replace the city’s old leisure centre. Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council say laying the paths now will minimize disruption to park users and park activities when major site works are planned later in the summer.

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It will also see some fencing in some grassy areas in the main park for the track works and a temporary closure of parts of the Black Bank railway track closest to the Black Bank pub, with an alternative entrance still available nearby in the main road. Park.

There will also be a small work complex for the three work weeks and this will be based next to the leisure center car park. The trail work follows the cutting of some trees in the area earlier in the year.

Councilor Tim Jenkins, cabinet member for leisure, communities and health at the Town Hall, said: “The council thanks residents for their patience and understanding during these works, which are essential to bring a modern replacement for the old Leisure Center to Bedworth .

“These works will minimize disruption to public use of the park when the main construction begins. An added bonus is that the improved section of track along the Black Bank rail route will be able to be retained after the Activity Hub is completed.

“This will provide a stable year-round surface that will form part of a future cycle route to the Hawkesbury.”

He added: “The cycle route will be delivered over the coming years using ‘planning win’ money from the developers and will also include cycle routes provided by the housing development on the old golf course.”

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