"The Pit" strange name but it really is a nice place.
Planning and Housing Departments got together with the BBC and the charity Groundwork Lincolnshire to do a bit of community regeneration work in West Pinchbeck in July.
BBC Lincolnshire chose a site in South Holland to become one of the BBC 'Breathing Spaces' and brought the SWAT-08 (Spring Watch Action Team) to the district on 12th July. Jeff Goodley from Planning and Michelle Naylor from Housing worked on the scheme to produce a nature reserve and play area on a derelict piece of land behind Edinburgh Walk in West Pinchbeck.
On the day local residents joined other volunteers clearing the site, strimming paths and assembling a picnic table and lots of bird boxes. BBC Look North recorded the event and we had a 4 minute slot on the programme that evening.
The scheme will continue in November with Autumn Watch when it is hoped tree planting and other work will begin. Groundwork have put management plan in place and it is hoped that the site will develop into a much needed nature reserve and public amenity.
Once a brick pit and works the 1.1 hectare of land behind Edinburgh Walk in West Pinchbeck is being transformed from dumping ground to a nature reserve and play area.
South Holland District Council, BBC Lincolnshire and the charity Groundwork Lincolnshire are working together to produce an amenity that the local community can be proud of. The land has been owned by SHDC for over 50 years but because of the geology of the soils nothing could ever be built there. The local residents had been asking for something to be done about the land for years, but until this scheme came along, nothing was.
Every year the BBC Breathing Spaces scheme works with the Spring Watch Action Teams, an off shoot of the Spring and Autumn Watch programmes, to renovate a piece of land. This year the Nature Conservation Officer at SHDC, Jeff Goodley nominated this piece of land and won the nomination.
