Cirencester Park access road

The posts appear reasonably level with each other , I suspect that some kind of retaining fence will be installed, as the earth bank does appear steep and not too stable.

This will be my last update as we leave the site tomorrow. We’ve decided to escape a day early and wild camp for a night rather than battle against the tide of incoming campers on Silly Saturday. 

The lopped off corners are now all prepared ready for the top layer of tarmac. Three of the lay-bys have been extended in this way while one of them remains in its original form, albeit with the rocks rather more embedded into the earth bank. The rocks either side of this lay-by are still pretty close to the carriageway. 

On Saturday, it is planned to have a warden stationed at each end of the access road, armed with walkie-talkies to direct the flow of traffic. There will be 25 vans arriving each hour from 9am. Good luck to all who venture here! 

Thanks for the regular updates and photos. Safe journey. Saturday sounds like a nightmare!

I just wonder what would have happened if it had not been highlighted on here by moulesy and on FB. Hope they at HO have said thanks to you, M.

I am sure that, as the club would tell you, it was all in hand 

Seems like a severe lack of common sense.

where's that flying pig emoticon? 😏

There is always a lot of "noise" on forums. Whether in this case it was instrumental in getting anything done is difficult to say. Perhaps those people that took the trouble to contact the College may have got them to realise there were difficulties that they didn't appreciate. However the site staff would have been monitoring what was going on and would have, no  doubt, alerted their Regional Manager and that may well have set the ball rolling rather anything said on here? I am sure Rowena relayed to the site team the concerns expressed here but by then I would imagine the Club were already engaged in finding a solution? 

David

Well done Moulesy, it looks like you have saved the day.   

I just hope things go smoothly for all those visitors arriving tomorrow and in the future. Cirencester was always one of our favourite sites and, especially when we were both working, we visited several weekends each year.