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The road surface on the south side of Main Street has been marked out …

… and the footpath finished.

On the opposite side of Main Street the old pavement is being lifted and replaced with a new one.

Date: 14th September 2014

Morning: 09:00 to 13:00

Belfast Road – 3 bags
Todd’s Hill, WindMill Road, Station Road – 1 bag
Downpatrick Street car park – 2 bags

Afternoon: 14:00 to 18:00

Lisburn Road (verges) – 4 bags
Fair Green, Wicket Lane – 2 bags
Old Belfast Road – 1 bag

Total on the day: 13 bags

At a ceremony today (Wednesday 17th September) in Londonderry’s Guildhall it was announced that Saintfield had won 3rd Prize in the Large Village category of this year’s Translink Ulster in Bloom Competition.

Barbara Graham, Chair of Saintfield Development Association, would like to thank everyone who helped Saintfield win this prize by displaying flowers at their business and residential properties.  Beautiful plant and floral presentations create a lasting, positive and welcoming image of Saintfield, encouraging people to make return visits with friends and family.

Saintfield Development Association’s small but dedicated Green Saintfield Committee helped to organise Saintfield’s floral displays and to keep the village tidy by regularly clearing dirt and litter from the streets.  Details of this work can be found HERE.

The evening of Friday 12th September saw the dedication service for the new Saintfield Baptist Church Hall.  After the service by former Saintfield Baptist Pastor Ian Wilson everyone was invited to visit the hall for refreshments.

Local man Paddy Jackson switched on the Christmas tree lights at last year’s Christmas Fair.  Organisers Saintfield Development Association took the opportunity to get Paddy to sign an Ulster Rugby shirt to be used in a ballot to raise funds for events in Saintfield.  The lucky winner of the framed shirt was John Crilly, pictured below.

A temporary road surface has now been applied to both sides of lower Main Street. The new lamp posts have been delivered as can be seen in the photograph below.

At each of the entries the setts have been lifted, cleaned and re-laid.

A Stop-Go system has been in operation as work progresses on Main Street past its junction with Downpatrick Street and The Square.

Special Clean Up at Saintfield Livestock Market

12 bags of litter collected from verges.

Belfast Road

8 bags of litter gathered from the wide grass verges.

On Saturday 6th September 12 volunteers assembled at 12.30 to prepare for another Saintfield Development Association litter pick in Saintfield. Five teams were formed and after the safety briefing and distribution of litter picking equipment they set off to their allocated areas.

Team AYC Shaneen/Bernie/Charlotte with Councillor Terry Andrews covered Listooder Road / Lislane / Shrewsbury and colloected four bags of litter.

Team Brenda/Alan covered Crossgar Road, Old Grand Jury Road and collected one bag of litter.

Team Murial/Lily/Arthur covered Comber Street / Comber Road / Belfast Road and lifted one bag litter.

Team Lyn covered Fair Green and filled one bag with litter.

Team Denis/Lawrence covered Moyra Drive wasteland to Forge Hill Court / Parish Church Car Park / Downpatrick Street Car Park / Play Park / New Line collecting two bags Litter.

Total for the litter pick = 9 bags

The teams met up at 2nd Saintfield Precbyterian Church Hall at 3.00pm for refreshments.

SDA would like to thank everyone for volunteering on the day, and Rev Graham Connor for the use of the hall.

The Down Your Street litter picking campaign started on 9th June 2014. Up to and including 6th September 2014 the volunteer litter pickers have collected:

47 bags of weeds
250 bags of street dirt
127 bags of litter

That makes a total of 424 bags of waste in three months!

So far the burden of lifting this waste has been on a very small group of volunteers, less than six individuals, and larger numbers on community litter picks such as the one described above.

Please help keep Saintfield clean and tidy by picking up and binning any litter you find in front of your house. If we all do a little bit it will make a big difference!

There has been a slight change of plan for this weekend.  Work was meant to start on the footpaths on Saturday, but it has now been rescheduled for Monday. Work will begin on the left hand side as viewed from the traffic lights i.e. on the same side as the pet shop.

A one-way traffic system is in operation on lower Main Street.  The temporary surface and road markings can be seen in the photograph below.

On the opposite side of the street the road level has been lowered and work has begun to rebuild it.