A GROUP of green-fingered volunteers helped to put the finishing touches to a new community garden.
The old station master’s garden, opposite the Great Western Hotel, in Vyne Road, Basingstoke, is now looking great.
A previously unused patch of green space, it was converted into a park by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, and the Veolia Environmental Trust – the charity arm of refuse collectors Veolia.
Fourteen people turned out to bed in a new labyrinth maze, which forms the centrpiece of the garden. They spent the day planting hundreds of pots of shrubs to decorate the Labyrinth border.
The project also features a new footpath through the park to the 13th century ruins of the Holy Ghost Chapel and the Chapel of the Holy Trinity.
To bring the land back into use, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council injected £9,000 from the heritage and environment fund, and Veolia added £10,100 from its landfill communities fund.
Councillor Rob Golding, the borough’s regeneration chief, said the new-look garden will “become a real asset for Basingstoke.”
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