A BID for more volunteers to help with the Alton Society’s Flood Meadows working party is to be given a boost after Alton Town Council’s open spaces committee agreed to the citing of posters at the Tanhouse Lane and Lenten Street entrances to the site, asking for offers of help.

The request dovetailed into a decision by open spaces committee members to approve new signage featuring two designs – one rustic in style, being handmade and carved by a local wood sculptor at a cost of £475 per sign, which was deemed right for Kings Pond (two signs), the Greenfields amenity site (one) and Windmill Hill (two), with more formal machine routed and planed signs, costing £925, agreed for siting at Anstey Park (two), Jubilee Fields (one) and Holybourne play area (one).

It was agreed that the Flood Meadows steering group should decide on the design of signage they felt would be most appropriate for the three identified entrances to this site.

The signs already have £7,000 funding secured via developers’ section 106 contributions but, should the decision be made to go for the more expensive option for Flood Meadows, councillors also agreed to supplement the cost using an underspend in the security patrols budget for 2016/17.