Alan Shelley

Designated Funding Form Application: A417 Trunk Road Improvements West Cotswolds Accessibility Project Project description The project will focus on improving the accessibility of public rights of way and associated routes to people with a range a disabilities, linking communities overlooked by the Cotswolds Escarpment with the area impacted by the A417 project. The aim is to provide improved links for walkers, horseriders and cyclists between the communities at the base of the escarpment with the escarpment itself and the landscape…

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Thursday 21 October 2021 We met together at around 11am on a morning in fine weather to be shown around part of the site designated ‘nature reserve’. Our guide for the next couple of hours was the kindly, but guarded, Ian Elphick, Senior Countryside Ranger, for Gloucester City Council. Preamble: Alney may have considerable historic significance in that in 1016 it is asserted that Edmund Ironside, son of King Ethelred, the unready, met with Canute of the Danish Vikings at…

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Proposed Site Visit by GLAF                                                         Location: Gloucester Vale and the Water Meadow ‘Hams’ Western boundary of Gloucester City Purpose: To review the popularity and amenity conditions of this historically important river valley landscape, with consideration to maintaining and enhancing/encouraging its rural attraction. The site in mind is located from Lower Westgate Street and by the Westgate bridge over the Severn moving along footpaths toward the Docklands and area of Llanthony Priory relics. These meadows have an important role, both as…

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