Street furniture

Street furniture

Council logo used on street furniture

Information boards in town centre

Flower tubs were introduced in the town centre during the summer of 2000 in an attempt to bring a splash of colour to the main streets. The scheme was organised by the Bourne Chamber of Trade and Commerce as one of the initiatives of the Town Centre Management Partnership that was launched at the beginning of the year with the intention of bringing fresh impetus to the town centre.

The ten concrete tubs were sponsored by local businesses and looked after free by the Social Education Centre whose members regularly planted them with fresh flowers in summer and winter.

Cast iron information boards finished in black and gold lacquer were also erected in all towns within the South Kesteven District Council area. Here in Bourne, they contain a map of the town and the location of some of our attractions together with notices of coming events of interest to both residents and visitors. They are located outside the Norwich and Peterborough Building Society offices on the west side of North Street.

In 2008, the tubs were replaced with new ones made of cast iron and painted in the black and gold livery of SKDC. Litter containers were also introduced at various points around the town centre, thus demonstrating an awareness by the local authority of the need to control the dropping of waste paper and other reuse in the streets. Additional receptacles for waste materials were introduced in January 2010 with the object of persuading shoppers to recycle their waste.

RECYCLING INITIATIVE

New bins were introduced to the streets of Bourne in January 2010 as part of the anti-litter policy pursued by South Kesteven District Council.
The well-designed black metal containers were positioned at vantage points around the town, rectangular in design and tastefully finished in red, blue, white and green lettering and were soon in popular use by shoppers who have found them a convenient disposal point.

Photographed in February 2010

Users are invited to bin their litter through one of the two large front slots and use the other for recycling their discarded food and drink cans, plastic bottles, paper and cardboard, and they are of a suitable size not to start overflowing and cause an even bigger mess. Four have been installed in Bourne and a total of sixteen in Grantham, Stamford and the Deepings and the first was given a civic send off by Councillor John Smith (Bourne West) with children from the Abbey CE Primary School who were soon queuing up to use it. Councillor Smith, portfolio holder for a healthy environment, said that the new bins would complement the litter bins currently in use. “The scheme aims to bring recycling into everyday shopping habits”, he said. “People are used to thinking before they throw away their rubbish and will find these bins a great help as we try to gather more recyclable waste from our streets.”

New railings in a similar style were added to the kerbside in September 2006 (below) to improve pedestrian safety and enhance the appearance of the area although they did not please everyone, particularly taxi drivers who protested that they impeded access to their vehicles which used two roadside ranks nearby.

New railings

MORE STREET FURNITURE

BURGHLEY STREET CAR PARK

Ornamental railings finished in black and gold were installed in the Burghley Street car park in October 2009 together with a public seat which was well used by passers-by, especially old people. All of this street furniture was removed in June 2013 when the car park was redesigned as part of the Wherry's Lane refurbishment programme.

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REVISED JUNE 2013

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