Although we were devastated when our wildflower planting was mowed down in the mid August, we are pleased that some of the flowers have come back to life.

 Easton Road Wildflower Embankment comes back to life

We are pleased that some of flowers have reappeared after the bed destruction in August.

Although the flowers are sparse in some places ........

..... the whole embankment is not too bad ....

.... as we can see from here and .....

..... from here.

Easton Road Wildflower Embankment mowed down

Leixlip Tidy Town Volunteers put many hours into preparing the soil and planting the seeds on a 350 metre stretch of Easton Road.  

In early August the planting was looking really well

Here:

Then on the weekend of 16th-17th August, somebody with a blue tractor reduced it to looking like this:

See details the scale of this project below ...

 Easton Road Wildflower Embankment

Leixlip Tidy Town Association has planted an area of 350 metres between the Easton Road roundabout and Glen Easton housing estate. It was decided that the planting of wildflowers would suit this embankment. We were in consultation with some experts in this type of planting. The project was carried out inMarch 2007. This project together with the proposed planting of the roundabout itself, will improve the general appearance of this part of Leixlip. Click Easton Roundabout for details on that project.

The last 100 metres tilled and ready for seeding

This section is completed

Before we tilled the soil

This is just a section of the 350 metre embankment

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Phase One of the Easton Road Roundabout project is now complete. 

Below are some photos of phase one of the planting of Easton Roundabout. The new show jumping fences were also installed by LTTA, representing County Kildare's equine heritage.

The photos below were taken on 25-10-2007:

Below are some photos taken in January:

We hope to do some planting in this roundabout in the summer of 2007 in conjuntion with the Easton Road embankment wildflower planting. Click Easton Embankment for more details on that project.

Facing West (taken from Easton Road)

Facing South (Intel is behind me)

Facing East (Taken from Kilmacredock Road)

Facing North (facing Intel)

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LTTA submitted a document on road cleansing effort in Kildare to the litter tripartite committee. Please click below to review the document that was submitted at the July meeting.

• In the last three IBAL surveys (2006 & 7) a Kildare town has come last of 50 towns;
• In the last three IBAL surveys (2006 & 7) Leixlip has risen from last (52^nd) to 47^th to 37^th;
• In the 2006 national, tidy-town competition Kildare town came joint-last of 69 towns with 5,000 or more population;
• In the 2006 national, tidy-town competition, when a fair comparison is made between the aggregate results for all the counties, Co Kildare comes second last to Westmeath;
• Road cleansing effort plays ‘second fiddle’ to road construction, tho’ litter creation is chronic;
• Road cleansing in Leixlip covers little more than the Main Street/ Station Road; Captain’s Hill, with over 10,000 vehicles per day is not cleansed regularly if at all;
• The productivity of the sole, manual, street-cleaning operative could be greatly enhanced if he were equipped with a machine and had a fall-back person when on leave;
• Only between 2002 and 2003 has there been a substantial increase in KCC’s road cleansing budget; when population and wage growth are considered, the spending effort is falling in recent years;
• The County Council’s spending on road cleansing is barely 1 percent of its current budget for 2007;
• The County Council’s Draft Litter Management Plan for 2007 is not a plan at all within the usually meaning of the word in respect of street cleansing.

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Members of Leixlip Tidy Town Association got together at the Toll House on Sat 8th September to bid farewell to Maya

Members of Leixlip Tidy Town Association got together Sat 8th September to bid farewell to Maya (Marzenna Szmanska) who was shortly returning to Poland.

Maya has been working weekly with the tidy town group since the spring. She used to walk through the Wonderful Barn every day to work in Hewlett Packard, and was saddened by the level of neglect and litter she saw there. She organised a cleanup with LTTA and her friends and from there she became actively involved in all the projects of the group.

She now wants to try set up a similar programme in Warsaw. We will keep in contact with her and wish her every success

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