Having attended the one of the public consultation events regarding the new flood defense proposals, I can state that changes are afoot in Chester Green.  An impressive amount of work has gone into these defences and comments are currently open on the planning application site for around another week (see neighbour comment link at the bottom of this page)

I’ve looked through the documents and although parking, tennis courts and the bowling green all move around, they have all been retained, and Little Chester gets more of a walled city feel, due to the new defences.  Well, it works for York…..;-)

Useful documents are linked below:

Good overviews and pictures can be found in the Design and Access docs:

• D & A Little Chester North
• D & A Little Chester Aida Bliss
• D & A Little Chester Etruria Gardens
• D & A Little Chester Lower City Road
• D & A Little Chester St Mary’s Bridge
• D & A Duke Street
• D & A Sowter Road

More detailed drawings can also be found, which are useful for looking at where tennis courts etc. are moved to:

• Little Chester Drawing 12 Overview
• Little Chester Drawing 13 North
• Little Chester Drawing 14 Comm Centre Before
• Little Chester Drawing 15 Comm Centre After
• Little Chester Drawing 15revA Comm Centre After
• Little Chester Drawing 16 Parkers Piece
• Little Chester Drawing 17 Duke Street & Sowter Road
• Little Chester Drawing 18 Duke Street
• Little Chester Drawing 19 Sowter Road
• Little Chester Drawing 20 Aida Bliss
• Little Chester Drawing 21 Etruria Gardens
• Little Chester Drawing 22 Lower City Road
• Little Chester Drawing 23 St Marys Bridge
• Little Chester Open Space Mitigation

Also, there are some great details of the local archeology:

• Little Chester Desk Based Exercise
• Little Chester Investigation Overview
• Little Chester Roman Fort Part 1
• Little Chester Roman Fort Part 2
• Little Chester Parker’s Piece
• Little Chester Drawing 86 Archaeological Investigations

Have a look and let us, and the council, know what you think!