Branch Project 10.1/10.2/10.3 exists as part of the Ridgeway Masterplan that has been developed by muf in collaboration with Design for London, Thames Water and the Boroughs of Bexley and Greenwich.
The scheme comprises of a series of elements that create a continuous step-free access over the Ridgeway. Improvements will be made to the embankment path at the north/south junction that leads to the Green Chain Chain Path and to the Thamesmead Football Club. It also creates an observation point over the marshes and includes new path surfacing, signage and new grazing sites for horses. The scheme is made up of a series of landscape treatments that can be described as follows:
- making good the existing path leading from Belvedre Road to the top of the ridgeway including the removal of the existing gate.
- a platform ontop of the Ridgeway, made by laying down reclaimed concrete railway sleepers that form a hard landscape connecting the Ridgeway path with the north/south ramps. The platform area will be augmented with a series of furnitures which will be comissioned at a later date as part of a separate art project.
- a new self-binding gravel ramp that replaces the two existing tarmac and gravel/dirt tracks that lead north of the top of the outfall sewer.
- a new asphalt path that connects from the northern Ridgeway gate to a second landscape of reclaimed concrete railway sleepers
- a new self binding aggregate surface path that leads from the railway sleeper landscape to the Thamesmead Football club, and a new entrance at the back of the football club that is marked by a further set of reclaimed railway sleepers.
The work will be carried out in a series of phases as allowed by the funding programme.
