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00:00Good morning once again people of Somerset. It's Daniel Mumby, your blustery local democracy
00:06reporter. You join me on a windy day overlooking the railway line here in Wellington and I've
00:12brought a friend along with me. Please introduce yourself for our listeners and viewers.
00:15Good morning, I'm Charles Biscoe. I chair the Grand Western Greenway Association.
00:20And we're going to be walking along that route of that greenway this morning.
00:25So Charles, not Charlie, we established this very much during the prep, is going to be
00:30walking with us from here at the edge of the Longforth Farm housing estate. We're going
00:35to go along the railway line through those trees in the background, ending up beyond
00:39the Ninehead Boat Lift and we're going to be talking about this fascinating project
00:44which is designed to introduce a new walking and cycling route which will eventually, we
00:48hope, go all the way to Taunton. But let's get started as we move off this bridge and
00:54Charles, let's just put this into context for people who are not familiar with Wellington,
00:59maybe who have never visited the area we're walking around at the moment. What was the
01:03impetus for this project and how long have you been involved with it?
01:06Oh well, I've been talking about some sort of active travel route between Wellington
01:10and Taunton for 12, 13 years I think. And I think the prospect of coming out into the
01:18countryside is a very attractive one. We've been looking at doing a route down the A38
01:23for a long time but it's unattractive whereas this, this is beautiful. And you know, nowadays
01:31when you build an active travel route you want to include everybody, you don't just
01:36want the brave and the foolhardy to, you know, fight the traffic. So we hope that building
01:42a path in the countryside means that not only will cyclists be able to use it but walkers
01:48will be able to use it, people on, you know, with less mobility using scooters and wheelchairs
01:53and what have you, will also be able to get out into the countryside easily. And this
01:58is, this is the great way to do it because we're sort of roughly following the route
02:03of the old Grand Western Canal. It's not actually part of the railway line but the canal is
02:11over there in the distance along that line of trees and the canal all the way out from
02:17here pulls up to the bank and goes back to other routes. So not only is it a beautiful
02:25countryside but there's also some terrific heritage here that people can see as well.
02:31We'll see some of that when we get up into the main route.
02:35Just to say, as with all of our live streams here on Somerset Live, if you have any questions
02:39or comments as we go along, do drop them in the comments section. Any that we can't get
02:43to in the moment I will endeavour to respond to retrospectively and of course we will
02:47put a link to the website for the Grand Western Greenway in the comments so that you can look
02:52at the background. So at the moment you say we're walking along the railway and this is
02:57part of the existing rights-of-way network, isn't it? So you're not having to just buy
03:01up huge swathes of land in order to make even a small stretch of this a reality?
03:06No, not at all. And it's worth saying that in the next year or two we're likely to see
03:13the Wellington Railway Station being developed along here and to do that, if we go further
03:20down, the people building that network rail will build a road through here. They put a
03:26haul road in to get all the materials in and give some access to both sides. So it's quite
03:31likely that this first bit, I say that advisedly, but hopefully we won't have to do much apart
03:38from build and maintain the surface and maintain whatever network rail we've got.
03:45Yes, it is a little muddy underfoot. We've had, very fittingly for April, a lot of showers
03:50in the last three or four days but we're well equipped with strong shoes and it would
03:54certainly make a lot of difference if this was a multi-user surface rather than having
03:59to take our chances with the mud. But we take what we can at the moment. And I suppose we
04:03should talk about the railway station because that's got a target opening date of late next
04:09year, September, October 2025. And you might have seen the stream that we did earlier,
04:15I think it was early last year, talking about the routes from Tonedale Mill. So your project
04:20is not just a kind of isolated phenomenon. It's intended to form part of a wider network
04:25of routes to and from the new station.
04:28Yes, absolutely. It's always been planned from this site. It's in that sort of pre-planning
04:35stage. It's field and field beyond and it's likely to have housing. And also where we
04:42started back up on the bridge there was the next new fair goes down to Tonedale Mill.
04:48And I think there'll be quite a lot of pressure on the council that we're doing Tonedale
04:53Mill to provide access down to Whitefield here. It's a terrific piece of visitor attraction
05:00heritage when it gets built. And I think they all link together. There's quite an active
05:10campaign to build this. So if that comes about then they'll want to come up from here up
05:19onto this route. And of course the railway station.
05:27Yes. We should point out as well that when you say the council is doing Tonedale Mill
05:32that is funded through the levelling up fund rather than their revenue budget. So we always
05:37get people asking, we thought the council was broke, where's this money coming from?
05:41And just to clarify the title of the well, the Grand Western obviously refers to the
05:46route of the former canal which we're going to be getting on to in a minute. But can you
05:49just explain to people what a greenway is and how it differs from a footpath or a cycle
05:54path in a more general sense? Well a greenway has that criteria, that accessibility.
06:01A, it's not beside a main road in a way. So it has the benefits of going towards this.
06:09But it also means it has to be accessible to walkers, cyclists, pretty much everyone.
06:14Depending on the surface, maybe even horse riders as well. And it's a multi-user but
06:23also multi-benefit. You'll find that people are keener on building greenways than they
06:29are on building a cycle path. Greenways get much more use. Look at the ones around, look
06:36at the Strawberry Line over on the other side of the county which is fantastic. And look
06:43at the Tarker Trail down through North Devon. I mean, you couldn't get a more popular place
06:50than that. And this one is what we hope that will become. Because we want to see it not
06:57only being something that people use to go to work, you know, use to just get to and
07:03from Wellington, but we want to see it linking communities. So we're heading now down what
07:09we call our Phase 1, which is heading straight towards Ninehead. And you know, linking Ninehead
07:15to Wellington is really important because the only road that's off the narrow is what
07:21you've got on the main road into the town. So you know, that's why a greenway is much
07:29more positive than just red tarmac by the side of the road. The air is sweeter as well.
07:36And there is a cost implication for that as well, because if the people behind the Strawberry
07:41Line are to be believed, it's much cheaper to lay a path like that than it is to construct
07:46even a short stretch of tarmac along the main road.
07:48Oh, absolutely. If you talk with people who have long conversations with parts of the
07:54country, they say to us that building a park along the countryside is six times cheaper
07:59than building something by the side of the highway. The highway demands that stuff beside
08:04it is built to those standards.
08:06Did you see a train go past? A cross-country service, which ironically will not be calling
08:13at the new station, but it will be served by Great Western Services. So yeah, please
08:19carry on with what you were saying, Charles. We were talking about the relative cheapness
08:25of building a greenway here rather than putting it on the main road, and we'll come to that
08:28more detail in a second.
08:29So it's not to say we build a cheap path. We would build a path that would fit all the
08:34Swedish criteria, you know, LPN 120 and all that, and it would be a wide path, so it would
08:40be accessible to all types of cargo bikes and tandems and all of that. But even then,
08:46even when you build it to that standard, it comes at a fraction of the cost of building
08:51a park by the side of the A38. And everybody recognises that. So, you know, what the overall
08:57cost of building something down here in Stortford would be, you can only really guess that,
09:02but we know that it would cost millions upon millions to build the A38.
09:10I guess it's an example of because there was a feasibility study done, a long-awaited feasibility
09:15study done into ways to connect Taunton and Wellington, which didn't actually prioritise
09:21this route as being a real contender, but if you look at the fact that the shortest
09:26route of just going along the A38 works out as so much more expensive per metre, you would
09:32think this would be a no-brainer for the council.
09:34Well, you would, and I don't entirely understand, I still don't entirely understand why that
09:40is. We're still waiting for Sunset Council to respond to our feedback. But I think, this
09:47is my best guess, I think what it is is that they feel that this will be a leisure route.
09:52I don't think they believe it will achieve the sort of, they would take it as a mobile
09:57shipment, that it won't bring cars off the A38, that it will translate that into cyclists
10:03coming along as well. I, you know, I've spent years cycling along the A38 to work at Musgrove
10:10and I honestly can't imagine why anybody would choose to ride the A38 as opposed to cycling
10:19down here. You know, station to station, it's about seven and a half miles. Go down the
10:25A38, up Silk Mills Road, again it's about seven and a half miles.
10:32Okay, yeah, it is very boggy in this part, but just bear with us whilst we navigate.
10:38If you have only just joined us here on Somerset Live, it's Daniel Mumby, your local democracy
10:42reporter. I'm out here with Charles Biscoe, we're talking about his aspiration for the
10:47Grand Western Greenway, which will eventually run all the way from Wellington to Taunton.
10:53We're just having to negotiate some rather saturated patches of this field before we
10:59get on to the former canal route itself. And that brings me on to something I was going
11:05to ask actually, because you mentioned about the Strawberry Line and other multi-user paths
11:10that have already been created or are in the process of being extended. And a lot of those
11:15depend upon the permission and the cooperation of local landowners. And without going into
11:21too much of the commercial nitty-gritty, I wonder what sort of response you've had
11:25from the people who own the land on the proposed route at the moment.
11:30Well, so far we're talking to people who own this piece of land, Phase 1, and we're talking
11:36to the owners of the land at the other end of the pot. So, at this end, the developers
11:42have been listening to conversations with the planners that they're doing the pre-planning
11:47application with, and they've been extremely supportive. I have to say, Network Rail are
11:55always difficult to negotiate with, but the developers have been really positive. I think
12:00mostly because they recognise that they want to do what they'll have to do, which is take
12:07over what Network Rail is doing. So that's really good. And the boat lift up here, a
12:14couple that own the boat lift are part of our organisation, so they're extremely supportive
12:20always. So, this end is looking really, really good. We've got another landowner that we
12:29need to talk to, so that's beginning to come together a bit now. And then at the other
12:35end, at Taunton, this part would start at State of Growth Road. At that end of the land
12:42is owned by Somerset Council, so it's the land going up over Freed Hill, and it's a
12:47public right-of-way, a community right-of-way. But that land is managed by Taunton Town Council,
12:54and we've had long conversations with them. In fact, I think it's going to be discussed
12:59at their meeting on Tuesday. Excellent. And they've got a proposal for you to support,
13:05to make a written support. That's really good. Yeah. Well, I think you've got to do, if you're
13:18doing things like this, you have to build them in bits. You can't do it all in one day.
13:22So, if we can get this end going, from Wellington to Ninehead, that's really good. And if we
13:27get the other end, from Taunton to Norfolk, that's also good. Yeah. It seems to be the
13:36way that these kind of paths come together, is that the smaller the gap between the completed
13:41sections get, the more cooperative and willing landowners seem to be. I was at a meeting
13:47of the Levels and Moors Local Community Network, and the phrase, it's like eating an elephant,
13:52comes to mind. You have to start at either end. Well, it's certainly the advice that
13:58the Scrawney line has given us. There's a wonderful chap who builds that called John
14:03Grimshaw. And John's very clear that you do what you can, when you can, and gradually
14:09it comes together. You know, apart from anything else, are you likely to be able to come up
14:13with funding to be able to build from that end to that end? I know that's how councils
14:18build, but we plan to build this ourselves. You know, we're supported by the Greenways
14:23and Cycle Roads Organisation, the constructors of the Scrawney line, and we would use them,
14:29John and his crew, who have already agreed to support us and have committed resources
14:36to us. So, you know, it would be a community-driven, community-led project that would then take
14:42on the path and maintain it into the future. So we've come to the place where we sort
14:48of think the railway station is going to be. Yes. You can see this piece of land that's
14:52been flattened out along the line of what will be the hallway. This used to be really,
14:57really terrible. But we would hope that our path would continue into that corner over
15:03there, and then I'll show you where it comes out. But what we need to do now is go up onto
15:09the canal path. Excellent. We're going to follow this little desire line. Yes. We'll
15:13go around the edge of that puddle, and then we'll walk down the towpath of the canal.
15:17Yeah. So when you were talking about the developers who are interested in this site, presumably
15:22they have, in the discussions that you've had, the issue of drainage and flooding in
15:28this area has come up, and is there a kind of agreement that they would sort that out
15:32before the path is built, rather than you having to fix it on your own steam?
15:35No, we don't do our own drainage. Okay. You know, you look at your old line over in Yank,
15:40well, you know, when that path is constructed, it's constructed with reserve drainage, and
15:46if you don't do that, it just means that we're sort of, I don't know, high tide, your path
15:51disappears, so it's part of the construction process. I mean, the railway line, actually,
15:56they do it fine. One of the reasons we're quite keen to follow the path of the canal
16:02is because the canal constructors knew that they had to avoid, you know, getting washed
16:07out by the river, so they've moved up the slope of the river, we intend to move up the
16:11slope of the river as well. If we followed the path of the West Steamway, anything we've
16:15built would be washed out by the river in the season. Right. I'll let you go on first.
16:21Yes. This is coming on to the section that we explored during our walk from Turndale
16:28Mill. We'll just let these, you might just be able to see behind where we sort of ventured
16:34along. In fact, if I just pan up so that if you follow the path in this direction, you
16:40eventually end up at Milverton Road and the Turndale Mill Toneworks Complex. As we can
16:47see today, the path is quite muddy. It's also very narrow, and you were talking about the,
16:52all the LTN restrictions where the path has to be a certain width. I mean, obviously,
16:57building to this part is relatively straightforward, but are you going to have to make substantial
17:01changes to this section to achieve what you want? We're not going to come up here, we
17:04hope. I talk about it so I've got it all in the bag, but we wouldn't plan to come this
17:09way. We would, oh, sorry. That's just checking your sound. We would go over by the railway
17:14line. Okay. This is a really popular walking route. That's the canal there, and, you know,
17:20at the other end, there's a Grade II listed building that we're not going to trample over
17:26Yeah. So this would remain a public footpath. Okay. Nothing we would ever want to do would
17:30change that. Well, I'll let you carry on forward. So, yeah, you'll just have to use your imagination
17:34for a bit until we get back onto the aspirational route as the wind picks up. Might have to
17:39shout a little bit. If you haven't, you just joined us here on this live stream, you're
17:42very welcome. It's Daniel Mumby, your local democracy reporter. I'm back in beautiful
17:47Wellington. We're near the railway line, and Charles Biscoe is leading us along the former
17:53canal route back onto the aspirational route of the Grand Western Greenway, which hopefully
18:01in however many years' time will provide an off-road walking and cycling route all the
18:09way from Wellington to Taunton via the villages that span round to the north.
18:15So, I hope you've got part of your questions answered. Yes. I might just ask you to speak
18:27up a bit because of the wind, Charles, if that's okay.
18:31I don't know if it works with this.
18:36But it was only a very small...
18:53I suppose that's one element we haven't touched on yet, which is the actual heritage and conservation
18:59aspect of the project, because although what you're doing is mainly driven by the need
19:04of providing a safe route between the two towns that avoids the A38, which as we know
19:09is very congested and dangerous in places, it also allows you to open up all these bits
19:14of Wellington's heritage to people who otherwise know that they existed.
19:18Yeah, absolutely, and we're working with people from the Grand Western Greenway who
19:24also have an aspiration to open up that heritage. This bit here is pretty much a part of the
19:32Grand Western Greenway. Somewhere along this part here, the only thing is, the really important
19:39thing is that there's an internationally recognised bat roost up there in one of those trees.
19:45One of those trees, I don't know which one it is, but apparently it's really, really
19:48significant, so it's going to be a very influential railway station.
19:55You can see Liddell's, the new Liddell Street just over there, so there's going to be 200
19:59houses in that field somewhere, and a railway station there somewhere.
20:04Yeah, just to put that into further context for people who aren't familiar with the ongoing
20:08efforts to secure Wellington's new station. So, Cherwell Developments have put forward
20:13plans for around 200 homes, it may be 220 depending on the final plans, that will extend
20:18the access road from the Liddell up to that southern edge of the railway line where we're
20:23now looking. They will also provide a car park as part of that development, and then
20:27Network Rail will submit separate plans for the station itself, including all the platforms,
20:32the ticket offices, and the bridge connecting the two sides. And that will hopefully shed
20:36light on the various connections with the existing rights-of-way and the scheme that
20:40you're planning.
21:03If you've never walked this stretch before, it's not too bad in the summer, but it is
21:08strewn with tree roots and mud, so it's strong-shoes territory, but it's not impassable by any
21:13stretch of the imagination.
21:22And would this have to be raised to deliver the path?
21:38It's a very good, vertically-operating, vertical lift for folks on canal anywhere in the world.
21:49So it's a really, really significant structure, so we don't want to go too close to that point.
21:56Yeah. It's one of the things that we always try and do on these live streams, if we're
22:00exploring somewhere that's on a right-of-way but historically significant, we try and leave
22:04things as we find them and respect other people who are on the path. You can actually
22:09bring dogs up here, so long as you clean up after them. And I'm just very quickly going
22:13to pan down to give you an idea of how far up we are. So it's really quite extraordinary
22:21how much of the old infrastructure has survived, albeit in an overgrown state.
22:26So this is the Bristol Exit Line, which has a fantastic bridge over it. It's beautiful.
22:32And it has two lodges on the other side, for some reason. Brunel agreed to build them,
22:37and so he did, because this is the driveway to Ninehead Court, which is, you can see that
22:43line of trees, which someone has very nicely planted over the field. And obviously, that
22:48goes underneath here as well. So this is the start of the Ninehead float lift, and it comes
22:53out into this area which is at the top, which would have been a marshalling area, I think.
23:00You can see where the aqueduct through there, where the water went.
23:04And then the horses were on a couple.
23:14So our path would go through those portals in the wall. Those walls are Grade 2 listed as well.
23:20Oh, so that little archway, you might just be able to see it in the middle.
23:22That little archway, we wouldn't be able to change that at all. People would have to get
23:25their bikes, or whatever it is, and walk through it, because those walls are actually listed.
23:30Seems like a small price to pay.
23:43I can imagine, once your path is in place alongside this one, it would actually make
23:47a very good running circuit.
23:56Fresh air, plastic, pieces of it, and they come running through that archway.
24:03That's where we'd go through there, through that bit.
24:07We're going to have to come and clear this next weekend.
24:09Excellent. I'm just going to double check. Your mic is still working. With these radio
24:12mics, we have to keep switching the balance on to ensure that they haven't cut out and
24:16saving battery. So the path is going to come through in front of this fence, so not having
24:21to go through this gate and remove the barbed wire.
24:23I don't think so.
24:24And then following back onto here.
24:27And we're on the canal now.
24:31It's not water you'd want to go swimming in, admittedly.
24:34I did try and convince the owner that she should turn this into a winery or a cafe down there.
24:39She didn't think it was a very good idea.
24:41This is the boat lift, the famous boat lift, and that moves boats up, counterbalance boats
24:47down in tubs full of water, caissons, as they're called.
24:53There are seven of these, between the tortoises and the green ones, and they were okay.
24:58They sort of worked.
24:59They had to fiddle around with them, but they are fine.
25:02I mean, people come from all over the country to do this.
25:05I can understand why.
25:06It's phenomenal.
25:10We've timed it right in terms of the weather.
25:12I was very worried that we'd be having to pound through the fields to get out of torrential
25:16but fortunately they've held off so far.
25:18Well, let's continue our journey.
25:20If you've only just joined us here on Somerset Live, don't worry.
25:22It's Daniel Munby here, your local democracy reporter.
25:24I'm with Charles Biscoe.
25:26We are on the route of the former Grand Western Canal.
25:29We're talking about the Grand Western Greenway, which will eventually, if all goes well,
25:33link Wellington to Taunton.
25:37It's always difficult to talk about the cost and the funding of this, Charles.
25:41We talked about the fact that per metre it's going to be much cheaper to deliver this
25:45than, say, slapping another foot of tarmac on the side of the A38.
25:49But what means do you actually have to deliver this at the moment?
25:53If Somerset Council turned around tomorrow and said,
25:55yes, you can do it, but we can't give you any money to it,
25:58do you have any funds in reserve so you could build a short section of it
26:02to show people what it would be like?
26:04Well, our funding is almost certainly going to come from Active Travel England,
26:07which is an offshoot of Transport.
26:10I mean, we'll obviously do bits of fundraising, but we can't raise it.
26:15Because it'll cost several million to build, we can't raise that.
26:18But there's a big interest now as we head towards net zero
26:22for these types of routes to actually start taking track of off the road.
26:26So DfT are producing money that you bid for,
26:30and almost certainly that's where ours will come from.
26:32We hope one day Somerset Council will get itself out into a more stable financial position
26:39and that we might actually see capital funding coming from them at some point in the future.
26:43I mean, that's where a lot of the Scorby line funding has come from.
26:46And certainly, you know, when you talk to investors,
26:49well, maybe in two or three years' time it'll be stable.
26:51But ideally, it'll come from central government.
26:55Yeah, we should point out that Active Travel England did recently provide
26:58just over £400,000 in their latest round,
27:01but that was for the design and development of new schemes rather than more capital funding.
27:06And the last round of capital funding that Somerset Council got
27:09is going on the A39 between Dunster and Carrampton,
27:12and we hope to see that started later in the spring.
27:14So we're now coming out under these low-hanging trees.
27:19There are disadvantages to being more than six feet in this part of Somerset.
27:24So we're just about to come out onto Ninehead Road,
27:28and I think this would be a good opportunity to sort of put this section of the path in context
27:33in terms of the different communities that it will link to and where it will go from here.
27:38So what we always refer to as Phase 1 would be cross the road here,
27:44and we would see it as the Ninehead Lake.
27:47So we would cross the road.
27:49If we've got time, we can go on a little bit further.
27:52And we would see that as a sort of complete route in itself.
27:58And if we succeed, the only real problem that we would have here is crossing this road.
28:03There will be a sweet spot somewhere where clever highways engineers will be able to do stuff about that.
28:10I mean, I'd like to put a tunnel through, but I don't think...
28:13Well, there used to be a bridge here, you know, where the canal went underneath the road,
28:17but it was like that apparently, and so it got taken down decades ago.
28:22Well, I think if we go through the game, we'll walk for a little further
28:25just to show people what condition it's in at the moment.
28:28I mean, this is the main road linking Ninehead to Wellington.
28:31Like you said, we're just north of the railway line and the Liddell,
28:34so it's a road that's going to get increasingly busy in the years ahead.
28:40So we're going to carefully cross this road.
28:42Yeah, there are a couple of blind bends here, so we just have to be a little cautious, but...
28:46We think there's a path up there somewhere where you can take a view.
28:52And like I say, there are many other intertwining rights of way,
28:56so if you don't want to stick to the whole of the Greenway,
28:58you can sort of pick and choose where you jump on and off, as it were.
29:04So we're now on the bed of the canal, and we've followed the canal for several miles.
29:11You can't really see it, it's been flagged up countryside,
29:14but in that mass of brambles over there is the portal, the bridge that goes under the road.
29:21So this is just a flat route now, right the way out to East Ninehead.
29:27It's going through land we don't have permission to do anything on this land as yet,
29:33but we're ever hopeful.
29:35It is a public right of way, it could become a right of way, and so on and so forth.
29:40So this is part of the West Dean Way going through here,
29:42and of course Ninehead is just up round the corner.
29:45Yes, we've almost timed that perfectly because the rain is starting to come down.
29:49One thing I was going to touch on, in the long-term future,
29:52obviously there's the other end of the Grand Western Canal over in Tibbeton Way,
29:55and there's a small section of that that still actually has the water in it.
29:59If and when you've got this all finished, would there be an opportunity to link up with that,
30:03so you'd have an unbroken route all the way into North Devon?
30:06That would be lovely, Daniel. I'm not sure I'll live on that one.
30:09But actually, not only would it go down to Loudwells, down onto the Tibbeton, the big canal,
30:15but because we'll end up in Thompson, it'll join up to the end of the Bridgewater-Thompson Canal,
30:20so you might, if you were lucky, end up with a path going from Bridgewater all the way down to Tibbeton,
30:25which is about 34 or 35 miles.
30:27That would be splendid.
30:29You know, there's a public footpath all the way down on the route of the canal, all the way to the Humber Road.
30:37Excellent.
30:38But yeah, if I live that long, I'm not working on it.
30:41I mean, 12 years, so come on!
30:43We're making more progress in the last year and a half than we've made in the previous 10 or 11.
30:49Isn't that very telling?
30:51We are going to wrap this up here, just because we don't want to get our gear completely soaked,
30:54but if people want to find out more about this project, including how they can get involved as a volunteer,
30:59whether they've got professional skills or they just want to pull up some plants,
31:02how is the best way to get in touch?
31:04On our website, which is grandwestongreenway.co.uk, or we have a Facebook page and Instagram page as well,
31:11which is also grandwestongreenway.
31:14Excellent.
31:15We'd love to see you.
31:16Yeah.
31:17We'll need all the help we can get.
31:18You may well do.
31:19I've been very inspired by this route.
31:21I mean, like I say, we've walked from the Tone Dale end.
31:23Obviously, that will come on stream in the next couple of years with the levelling up funding kicking in.
31:27We're expecting the results of a study on the flood prevention work there to be coming out within the next couple of weeks.
31:33In the meantime, thank you very much to Charles Biscoe from Grand Western Greenway for taking us through this Phase 1,
31:39and hopefully you've been able to imagine how it will look when it's all finished,
31:42and hopefully the money will fall into place very soon.
31:45If you have missed any part of this stream, it will be available indefinitely on our Facebook page.
31:49I will get round to any comments that we couldn't get to.
31:51Apologies if I missed you.
31:52There will be an article summarising all of this sometime in the next couple of days,
31:56and I will be back on Monday when we'll be climbing Glastonbury Tor to talk about the Glastonbury Town Deal
32:01and the new paths that are going around that section.
32:03In the meantime, it's goodbye from my wonderful guest, Charles Biscoe.
32:06It's goodbye from me, Daniel Mumby.
32:08Enjoy the rest of your weekend, and I hope the rain holds off for you.
32:11Bye for now.