The Watercress Way Appendix 12 Current and Future Projects 2020 & beyond Project Locations Status External Funding Needed Public Awareness of the The Watercress See Appendix 9. Trustee and volunteer Watercress Way Charity Way • Annual (April) Dawn commitment. and improved use to Dusk Days • AGMs on Anniversary of charity’s founding day: 16th June 2016. • Attend meetings and hold information sessions at village fetes, the Alresford show and Watercress Festival • Annual quiz • Leading walks , showing points of ecological and historical interest • Leading volunteer sessions • Active Facebook page, website. • Fundraising: Donations & Sponsorship options for local businesses. Access for All at Couch Couch Green Topographic survey Grants from Rotary Green completed. Quote for full Club for planning. plans. c£13k for construction HCC approached for Licence to permit works. Support from Itchen Valley Parish Council, HCC and South Downs National Park (SDNP). The Watercress Way Management Plan 1 Revised 10 July 2020 Project Locations Status External Funding Needed Access for All at Worthy Down Topographic survey Full works require Worthy Down Halt Halt planned substantial external funding. Access for All at Bridgets Lane Regular clearance to keep Full works require Bridgets Lane Martyr Worthy path and environs clear. substantial external Deferred until Couch funding Green ramp completed Installation of 10 Various Some sites identified and Grant of £4500 from benches locations agreed with HCC. Alresford Rotary Club. Deferred installation due to CV-19. Will implement as soon as permissible. Installation of Mag Post Worthy Down Mag Post purchased. Grants from Alresford and listening posts Halt and Couch Listening posts planned. Rotary Club. Green Installation delayed by Covid-19. • Project 5: Establish a Sutton Scotney 1.Route agreed and 1. Clearance paid for route to the centre of waymarked through with a grant from Sutton Scotney gaining Taylor’s Yard to the Wonston Parish access through two new Gratton. Council. housing developments. Interpretation Board and 2. Grant needed but Also including former bench installed. majority of the work to track bed under Wonston Bridge cleared. be done by volunteers. Wonston Road bridge. Decision made to open up the licensed area for public use. 2.Repeated attempts to get permission from adjoining landowner for permissive path to connect to Beggars Drove unsuccessful. Improve walks section Website In progress. New Walks None of the Website need to be added as developed. Route maintenance Hampshire On-going with the Worthys None. Rights of Way Conservation volunteers 3 brush cutters and network on the and SDNP volunteers and sufficient tools disused lines. local support. available. 3 Trustees brush cutter trained. The Watercress Way Management Plan 2 Revised 10 July 2020 Project Locations Status External Funding Needed Identify improvements The Watercress Maintain dialogue with None to the route including Way landowners and seek diversions where permissive paths where appropriate. possible Improve access from South Wonston Regrading current very HCC to implement former DNSR railway up steep ramp In conjunction to Oxdrove with HCC The Watercress Way The Watercress The Watercress Way seeks None will review all Planning Way to secure benefits for the applications that are project through planning likely to have an impact applications and the use of on the route of the Section 106 agreements former railway Lines and other means. and Trustees will All our responses will respond as appropriate contain a preamble explaining our aims and objectives Maintain contact with Sutton Scotney • Project 2 Extension of Unknown landowners to Itchen Valley route alongside investigate Alresford former railway from opportunities to open Lovedon Lane to the A33. more of the disused • Project 3: line. In particular, Establishing a route maintain interest in in New Alresford sections in Projects 2, 3 linking Bridge Road to and 4 as listed. New Farm Road. • Project 4: Establish a route from Northington Road to Rectory Lane following the track of the former railway Improve the condition Kings Worthy Investigation of different Unknown and surface of the trail Itchen Valley types of surface material. Liaison with HCC and WCC on upgrade of paths. Maintain a list of The old railway Telegraph poles cleared of None artefacts and seek to lines between vegetation at Martyr preserve them where Alresford and Worthy. Railway historian possible. Kings Worthy is mapping finds. and from Kings Worthy to Sutton Scotney The Watercress Way Management Plan 3 Revised 10 July 2020 .