Creating an All-Weather entrance
The entrance area and Coal Hill Lane perimeter wall dates back 150 years. Over those years the road surface of Coal Hill Lane has “grown” to be several inches higher than our entrance, due to road surface work by Leeds City Council. This combined with blocked drains on either side of the gates meant that rainwater flowed into our entrance creating a “lake” as well as damaging the bottom part of the 150 year old iron gates.
Ironically, as we cleared many layers of silt and debris in the months after we purchased the Rehoboth this problem increased as there was no dam to hold back the flow of water. Leeds City Council kindly unblocked the drains and we commenced to build an all weather surface inside the entrance firstly by establishing space for foundations that would also allow the gates to fully open.
We were delighted to have been offered a free JCB and operators from D.Shaw Paving & Groundwork, who dug out the entrance area which was then surfaced with Groundguard grids funded by our grant from the Aviva Community Fund and Wade’s Charity.
The result completed by October 2019 was our first piece of new surfacing and also created a space for a “landing zone” to facilitate delivery and storage of bulk building materials.
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