The Annexe project begins

Immediately following the ASET bonfire night extravaganza on Sunday November 6th, construction on the new Public Hall Annexe will start the next day (i.e. Monday 7th November).

The plan is to keep part of the main car park closed off after the bonfire night. The left hand side of the car park as you enter, together with the marked spaces down the middle will be cordoned off. This will allow the contractor, Sneyd Construction, to erect the fence that will protect the workings from the public and the public from the workings. Once the fence has been erected, Sneyd will mark out new parking spaces alongside the new fence.

Car parking

The end result will be something like the plan shown (the actual number of parking spaces will be determined at the time).

This will give the contractor's large vehicles space to manoeuvre into the compound, but still leave access (including disabled access) into the existing Hall. Access to the playing field, tennis courts and childrens' playground should not be affected..

Clearly this will involve the loss (which we will keep as small as we can) of some car parking spaces over the next year, and some further disruption from time to time as services are laid in and heavy vehicles have to get access to the site.

Heavy vehicle access

The APHAx Committee, in conjunction with the Contractors, will try to keep this extra disruption to a minimum and to warn everyone when it is going to happen.

However, there will inevitably be times when the Annexe building project will be a b****y nuisance and for this we can only apologise and hope that the new Annexe will be seen as worth every bit of the aggravation when it is up and running.

The car park will be reinstated to something very like its existing state once the building is complete and the fence removed.

A small piece of good news to end on – in some articles about the Annexe project, it was suggested that the building would not be complete until November 29th. This was due to the hearing difficulties and general ineptitude of your correspondent because the expected date is actually September 29th, 2017.

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