What can I do now? 

Works to improve your gardens is now underway across the blocks. In preparation for these works, we would kindly request that your garden is cleared of all items (any garden furniture, sheds or equipment)

It is important that you allow access to your home for the works to be carried out as part of the Sutton Way programme.

Your tenant liaison officer at Liberty will carry out a pre entry survey with you and discuss any preparation that is needed ahead of works starting. This survey also allows you the opportunity to ask any questions that you may have, so we would kindly encourage that you allow access for this survey to be carried out as early as possible.

Looking after your community

It’s important that we all play our part in looking after the community and making it the best it can be.

We have continued to experience a considerable increase in fly tipping and inappropriate disposal of waste around the areas we are working within.

Not only is this unsightly but it encourages further tipping and attracts vermin. Over the last year over £30k has been spent on clearing fly tipping, money that could have been used to improve communities in other ways. We continue to work with the Cheshire West and Chester Council’s waste team to promote good recycling practice in the area.

We continue to work closely with the Council’s Regulatory Services and Community Safety Teams to take appropriate action against individuals in these circumstances.

This initial pot of funding will be used to create the first shared garden space between blocks 4 and 6 on Sutton Way and to develop an outline of how the other greenspaces in Sutton Way could be developed in the future, if further funding was secured.

Landscape architect Elaine Cresswell from Re:Shaped will be working with residents to co design the space, agree what type of planting will work and teach you about maintenance of the plants. It will also cover soil and planting costs and potentially some of the other materials needed for the space, including some time for the Urban Workbench project to return and support those of you who want to learn basic joinery skills and help create some items for the space.

Some of you met with We Make Places and a representative from the RHS who was really impressed with the enthusiasm of the residents they met and the potential for these green spaces. It’s thanks to your passion that we were invited to apply for this Community Wellbeing Grant and we’d love to get more residents involved.

How to get involved:
• Tell your housing officer to add you to our list of green space champions
• Text GREENSPACE to 07984 358 474
• Email suttonway@wemakeplaces.org

Sessions will be run by We Make Places and Elaine Cresswell from ReShaped – a sustainable people centred landscape architecture practice who we have worked with on a number of projects in the North West, including the sensory square garden at the Cheshire Oaks Coliseum

Sutton Way block naming project

Now work is completing on Blocks 3 and 5, we are looking towards the future of Sutton Way and developing the new names and signage for the blocks is a big part of this.

Tying in with the work that happened in the local history project and working with Brookside Primary School, we have chosen 3 potential themes.

We want you to vote for your preferred theme and then for a small group of interested residents to attend a workshop to discuss and help co-design the signage solutions and names for Blocks 3 and 5.

We hope as many of you as possible will get involved in choosing these themes. Giving each block a name will really help with the identity of the neighbourhood – not to mention the improvement to delivery services and giving directions to your home!

The 3 themes we are considering are: