The Grange has recently installed a large greenhouse in our beautiful walled garden to enhance our learning facilities and enable us to run horticulture skills sessions for the people we support all year round.

Currently the route to the Greenhouse is a mixture of soft uneven soil with slope and aggregate making it inaccessible for the people we support who have mobility issues or use a wheelchair.

We have identified a recycled tyre permeable paving system (Sudstech) which we would like to use to create a path from the entrance of the walled garden to our new greenhouse. This is in keeping with our Greener Grange policy to use recycled materials where possible. The path would need to be 2.5m wide to allow for wheelchairs turning and passing, the length of the path required is 72m.

As part of the project, we would like to have a circular path laid out near the entrance of the walled garden. The people we support will design and make a sun-shaped mosaic to be placed in the centre of this circle. The new path to the greenhouse will lead off from this starting point as one of the rays of the sun.

The light colour of the pathway will help those who are partially sighted to clearly distinguish the safer route to the Greenhouse. We estimate that the cost of the whole project will be around £38,000.