Working on fresh look

The work comes two weeks after the Western Advocate reported that councillor Warren Aubin was fed up with how long it was taking for Norwood Park to address the area on the corner of Bradwardine Road and the Mitchell Highway. 

At the time, Cr Aubin said that the poor state of the pond was detracting from all the landscaping Bathurst Regional Council had carried out on the corner and further along Bradwardine Road. 

Norwood Park general manager Stephen Beer said on Wednesday that work started at the cemetery on Tuesday. 

“We’re doing some earthworks on the side of the dam to stop the erosion and we’ll put down some top soil and grass,” he said.

“It is early stages yet; we only started on Tuesday.”

Further landscaping works are likely to be carried out around the site after the pond is addressed.

“We are continually developing out new part of the cemetery,” he said. 

Cr Aubin praised Norwood Park for starting the project so soon, saying it was a great outcome.

He expected that work would continue until the site is complete. 

“I really think that now they have the work they will keep going,” Cr Aubin said.

“It was in their plans and, now that they have kick-started it, I can’t wait to see what it looks like.”

The councillor rose the issue earlier this month after more than a year had passed since council was told that work would commence in the spring of 2016. 

He urged Norwood Park to “come to the party” and do its part.

He said any landscaping works carried out on that corner of the cemetery would add to the work already completed by council at the entrance to Bathurst.

“We really hammered that area and put in the 200 Living Legends trees up there on Bradwardine Road, two rows on one side and three on the other, to beautify it and to have that [pond] as a blight on the landscape was disappointing,” Cr Aubin said.

“They’ve started it and I dare say that they will keep going until it is finished, which will be a fantastic result for everyone.”