Cranbrook finally has a new Country Park Ranger filling a long overdue gap in the personnel roster within Cranbrook Town Council which will help to ensure our vast open space gets the attention it needs and deserves. With 35 hectares of Country Park and various other open spaces there is going to be plenty of work to keep him occupied!
I hope you’ll all welcome Andrew as he starts to take on and tackle the various responsibilities, which include:
Andrew is responsible for the management and maintenance of every piece of public open space in Cranbrook, including the Country Park, verges, hedgerows, sports pitches and sustainable urban drainage features – and the improvement of those areas.
Source: About Cranbrook Town Council
Update:
When I quoted the above, it came from the Cranbrook Town Council Web Site as written at the time. I was later contacted by the Chairman of the Council as the wording I posted above was seen to be inaccurate (although I clarified this was not my wording). Subsequently the council has revised the wording:
The Chairman was keen to avoid confusion – but I’m not sure the revised wording does make it quite as obvious perhaps as it should be.
For the avoidance of doubt – Andrew as the Ranger has responsibility for the public open spaces that are under control of the Town Council – some areas won’t be – typically still under the control of the developer (typically the consortium), and in the case of the Ingrams development, the contractor for that project.
I’m happy to provide this clarity of course – although as I say, I didn’t create the original or revised wording – I merely quoted it.