Boating Pond update October 2022

Restoring the boating pond has been at the top of our action plan for the last five years.

Last winter the planned investigations and repair/replacement of pump and pipes stalled and Graham Campbell, the waterways engineer who had been running the project, moved to another job away from Enfield Council. 

The FoBP project group was boosted by the addition of Andrew Polycarpou (pictured above with notepad), who volunteers with our school’s group, and offered his highly relevant professional experience. We were also supported by our new councillors, Cllr Doug Taylor and Cllr Chris James, who met with us, and Doug undertook the task of investigating and reinvigorating the project within the Council.

We are pleased to say that after a meeting with senior directors of Enfield Council a new project group has been set up led by Danny Hammond (pictured above inspection the drains) , Principal Engineer, for Enfield Council working with Andrew on scope of works and timeline. Many will know Danny as the leader of the highly successful netball and tennis court restoration.

An initial site visit took place in late September, and we are now underway, starting with full surveys and engineer’s reports.