Estate residents must pay for upkeep of historic avenue

Pressure should be put on the owners of 90 properties, built as the first phase of an estate in Uckfield, to contribute towards the maintenance of an historic avenue, it was agreed last week.
By The Newsroom
Published 2nd Oct 2007, 13:14 BST
Updated 7th Jun 2018, 22:43 BST

Deeds produced at a meeting of Lime Aid, an organisation formed to restore Lime Tree Avenue, showed that the Manor Park Estate home owners should each contribute a proportion of the costs of maintaining and repairing the former carriageway and associated footpaths.

The deeds, which were registered in 1966, show the homes as being in Lime Tree Avenue, Downsview Crescent, Warburton Close, Larnach Close, Southview Drive, Beeches Close and Lime Close.

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Lime Aid is to write to East Sussex County Council asking whether their solicitor could contact the residents reminding them of their responsibilities.

The campaigners are pressing on with their efforts to overcome problems caused by multiple ownership of the avenue and at the meeting on

Thursday (September 20) Uckfield Community Technology College principal

Craig Pamphilon assured them of his continuing support.

Many students use the path to get to and from the school each day and

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Mr Pamphilon said he would be pressing the council to install proper lighting there to make it safer during dark winter months.

Volunteers are being sought to join in a task day on Saturday, January 19, to cut back epicormic growth, or suckers, on the avenue's lime trees.

Lime Aid chairman Dr Martyn Stenning said that if the growth wasn't controlled the trees would be deprived of nutrients and start dying from the top.

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