There will be another Community Litter Pick on Saturday 6th September.  Everyone is welcome to come along and help clean up our village!

Dayglo jackets, protective gloves and litter pick tools will be provided.

Date: Saturday 6th September
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Meeting point: Car Park in front of 2nd Saintfield Presbyterian Church.

Refreshments will be provided at the end of the Litter Pick.

Our traders and businesses need your support more than ever during the disruptive roadworks on Main Street. Please shop locally and help them through this difficult period.

At the end of the fourth week the kerbs and gutters are in place, and resurfacing has begun on the first half of lower Main Street. It looks much better already!

Work has progressed well in The Square and great changes can be seen at the end of the third week.  The Square has been resurfaced and the granite pavements, kerbs and gutters are in place.

In order to better define the limits of The Square bricks have been laid into the road surface at both ends of The Square.  In the photograph below a slot has been cut into the road surface to accommodate the bricks.

By the end of the working day on Friday all of the bricks have been set in place.
This photograph is of the Main Street end of The Square.

Below is a photograph of some log art that has appeared recently in Rowallane. The bandstand that used to be on the promenade in Newcastle can be seen in the background.

Well done to all of the Saintfield High School pupils
who have achieved good grades in their exams!

Crossgar Road (from New Line to Queen’s Park): under hedges and in gutter on the road – 12 bags of dirt

Ballynahinch Road (from 30mph sign to Drumnaconnell Road): emergency clean up of the contents of two black bin bags strewn across the road and in the verges

Lisburn Road: Saintfield Development Association members were also in action cleaning the verges on the Lisburn Road.  Some photographs of their work can be seen below:

Members of Saintfield Development Association tackled the stretch of Listooder Road from Shrewsbury Heights to Listooder Park.  A total of 11 bags of dirt were swept up and bagged.

The photographs below show the result of the pavement and gutter clean on the Listooder Road:

Work is progressing well with the upgrade of The Square.  At the end of the second week the pavement is taking shape beside the Guildhall of 1st Presbyterian Church.

The round hole in the photograph below is where the large circular seat/planter/sign was located.
As can be seen, provision has been made for access to businesses.

At the end of the third week there were three excavating machines working on lower Main Street.  The road has been lowered to remove the camber which had built up over the years by the addition of several top surfaces, and all the underground services have to be lowered accordingly.

The severity of the camber made it very difficult for some people, particularly the elderly, to open and close car doors when parked anywhere along the length of lower Main Street.  It required a lot of effort to push open a door on the driver’s side of a car, while on the passenger’s side a door would “fall” open and be very difficult to pull shut.  When the new top surface is in place with a much reduced camber it should make life easier when parking to shop at the bottom of Main Street.