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Meeting the communities of Wellington and Taunton
Over the past couple of weeks, our team has been actively engaging with the communities of Wellington and Taunton to discuss r the Grand Western greenway. These community events have beenf inspiring, as we interacted with a diverse group of people interested about sustainable transportation and active travel. Connecting with Supporters Our main objective during…
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Gideon Amos MP (Taunton and Wellington) dropped by…
Gideon Amos dropped by when we were doing our fist promotional stall in Taunton this week with news about Wellington Station. It is by no means a done-deal, and so much of the Greenway is dependent on it being built.
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Phew, that was close!
This week we faced the very real possibility that Wellington Railway Station would get swept away as the Restoring Your Railways programme was cancelled in the Chancellor’s statement on Tuesday. This would have posed a serious threat to the Greenway as one of the key motivators for public funding is the need to connect communities…
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How we plan the route
If you’ve walked the Greenway with us, you will know there are many options for route selection. It would be wonderful to simply follow the route of the Grand Western Canal, but the topography today is much different now to what it was in the 1840s. Agriculture uses enormous arable fields through which the canal route would…
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Greenway progress report
Wellington – phase 1 This illustration of the new Wellington station was provided by Network Rail as part of the planning application for the recently approved housing development. It is important to note that this is purely a representation and not the final design. Nevertheless, if we assume we are looking at the south side…
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Pop-up Shop
The Greenway is going very public! After some superb publicity generated from a Facebook Live interview with Daniel Mumby which made it to almost everywhere including the top of the BBC Southwest pages, we are about to do our first public information event. Some of you may know about the Pop-Up Shop in Fore Street,…
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Taunton Town Council supports the Greenway
The Council had a full meeting on Monday, 9th April, the Council were asked to consider a proposal to support the Grand Western Greenway. Councillors were told that the Grand Western Greenway Project aims to establish a greenway between Taunton Station and the proposed Wellington Station directly connecting the two towns linking with smaller communities…
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Progress in 2024
This year is going to be one in which we get down to real talking and, so far, it is going well. It has always been our plan to build the path in phases starting at either end. I’m pleased to say the development at the Wellington end of the station and hundreds of houses…
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Walk the Greenway – new dates!
We have been taking groups of people to walk along the route of the Greenway, and they have proved to be very popular, even through the winter when the ground has been pretty soft underfoot. Although we can’t follow the route exactly, we are able to get close for much of it and we are…
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Somerset Council supports the Greenway
It has been an interesting end to 2023 for the Grand Western Greenway. We held our inaugural meeting 12 months ago and set the following objectives for the year which felt pretty stretching at the time: We described the first year as one in which we wanted to make friends with people, and we have…
