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Hull Civic Society
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Hull Civic Society In The News
Hull Civic Society fear Hull’s busiest road is leaving visitors with the impression they are entering a Third World city after the Highways Agency stopped cutting all but crucial verges.
Members of Hull Civic Society said they felt they had to make a stand after taking a look at the overgrown verges, embankments, roundabouts and central reservations along the A63 within the Hull boundary.
Unsightly weeds are growing rampant around a newly replanted roundabout at the entrance to Hull Docks, the first point of entry to the city for thousands of ferry passengers.
The roundabout was refurbished at a cost of around £100,000, paid for by the Highways Agency, only a few months ago.
In a letter to Hull Civic Society, the Highways Agency says it is not undertaking “routine amenity cuts” as part of cost cutting and is “reviewing and challenging” whether grass cutting is “cost-effective or necessary and whether it is good for the environment”.
Chairman of Hull Civic Society John Netherwood said they believed the agency’s policy was “in every sense a false economy” because of the poor impression it would make on city visitors.
He said: “This is our main thoroughfare into the city, it is the first thing that a million people see in the city. It’s not a motorway, it is an urban boulevard. It should be kept as well as the rest of the city, which is kept in superb condition by the city council and they have 10 times as much to mow.”
The Highways Agency paid for extensive works to the roundabout earlier this year. The roundabout, which had long been an eyesore, was divided by fencing to resemble groynes and set out with cobbles and was planted with more than 5,000 plants.
The project was regarded as particularly timely given the recent announcement that Siemens is developing a wind turbine factory in the city.
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