Children get a say in the design of a new estate entrance marker

The seven-foot tall sandstone marker at the entrance to the Lukes Lane estate (pictured), is shortly to be removed. Since the Community Group raised residents’ complaints about the marker, town hall officers, along with Group members and ward councillor Alan Kerr, have been meeting to discuss a new location and design for the marker.

Pupils from Lukes Lane Community School have since been involved and have worked together to come up with a new design that will be etched on to the new marker. It is expected that the new marker will be lit by ground-level lights, located amongst newly planted foliage and located on the grass verge near to the junction of the two roads that feed onto the estate. Moreover, the new marker will not be the current “tombstone’ shape, but rather lozenge-shaped.