{"id":186,"date":"2013-06-13T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/?p=186"},"modified":"2013-06-13T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:21:23","slug":"roundabout-phase-1-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/roundabout-phase-1-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"roundabout phase 1 complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

By looking at the photo, you would have no idea how much time and effort has gone into getting the Area 5 roundabout to this stage. After a\u00a0HUGE<\/strong> amount of back-breaking, shoulder crunching clearance work, thanks to Julie, Wayne, Sam and others, I have now formed an almost level central bed for the roundabout to encompass. I’m looking forward to planting it up now, complimenting the existing willow trees.<\/p>\n

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Area 5 roundabout phase 1 complete<\/p><\/div>\n

The actual roundabout road, will be (as usual) underlaid with a reasonable depth of hardcore, as on digging down, we have found a considerable layer of light brown clay, and beneath this a very dark and somewhat pungent layer of sticky, silty soil. There was also a small band of large grade gravel running across what once was a water cress bed.<\/p>\n

The aim of the roundabout is to minimise the infrastructure impact on this area, whilst maximising the space available for landscaping and caravan parking. Even though a large proportion of this area has a concrete slab over it, as it was where the main work buildings were sited, grading up to the concrete with grass should look just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By looking at the photo, you would have no idea how much time and effort has gone into getting the Area 5 roundabout to this stage. After a\u00a0HUGE amount of back-breaking, shoulder crunching clearance work, thanks to Julie, Wayne, Sam and others, I have now formed an almost level central bed for the roundabout to … Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[46,48,45,47],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-landscaping-2","tag-area-5","tag-clay","tag-roundabout","tag-willow","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sYi4-30","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cresslands.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}