Greenway Walks to Resume
Hastings Greenway Trust is happy to announce the resumption of their series of walks covering the routes of the Hastings Greenway network yet to be completed. The next walk, on October 2nd at 2.30pm, will tackle the journey through Hastings Country Park and visit the new visitor centre, The Bale House, for refreshments. The estimated time for the walk there and back is around 3 hours.
For those blissfully unaware of what a ‘Greenway’ is, a useful description is available on the Hastings Greenway website: “A Greenway is more than just an off-road route for cyclists, walkers and people with disability scooters. Greenways are largely car-free, off-road routes connecting people to facilities, open spaces and countryside within and around our towns. They are for shared use by walkers and cyclists and can be used by people in wheelchairs and mobility scooters.
“Fully developed Greenways often include amenities such as seating, planted areas and public art and may create a linear park effect or utilise an existing park. Greenways create safe and
direct routes in attractive
settings. They provide a sustain-able, environmentally friendly travel option for utility (getting to work, education or shopping) and for leisure and health purposes.”
The Hastings Greenway project itself is a network of linked almost traffic-free routes that anyone
can enjoy for leisure, amenity and utility walking, as well as cycling. Starting at Hastings Town Centre, the Greenway will eventually
run 10 miles to Ore, Silverhill, Hollington & Mayfield and the Conquest Hospital.
Greenways are increasingly seen in urban regeneration projects in the UK, Europe and elsewhere. In the UK a Greenway is an integral element of the London 2012 Olympic Park. Exemplar Greenways have also been developed in New York (the High Line Project) and in Paris (Avenue Plantee).
Gordon Russell, Chair of the Greenway Trust says: “The importance of people’s health and wellbeing coupled with the ability to travel away from traffic in safety in an in environmentally safe way is paramount: it is why the Trust is working hard to get these projects delivered.”
n For more information visit
www.hastingsgreenway.org
where you can find detailed
maps of completed projects
and proposed projects.
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