Garendon Park, Loughborough - Public Access Developments

Important Update 23.10.25: We now have firm dates for the closure of NCR6 (Alias FP K68). A notice appeared in early October at the prospective NCR6 crossing point for the new Garendon distributor road to the effect that '....Butthole Lane will be closed from 13.10.25 for 10 weeks...' . I have now obtained more detailed info about the closure from LCC Highways via our local county councillor. You'll find these on my website - follow the link below or more details and a status report for the recommended diversionary route. 

NCR6 is an established PROW, and is the only remaining traffic-free route between Shepshed and Loughborough for cyclists and pedestrians. Closing it for this length of time will inconvenience both pedestrians and cyclists; there is no viable alternative cycle-friendly route, since the Coach Road is also closed and isn't scheduled to reopen again until April 2026. The closure will also restrict access to the established FPs in the southern part of the estate, since access will be blocked from Coe Avenue.

For full details of the recent history of footpath availability and available knowledge of the develpers' plans for the estate, see the website's Garendon page. 

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I’m publishing this post to provide interested users with a link to my website’s Garendon page, where you’ll find some useful information on public access to the Garendon Park development. Just follow the link.

Amongst other things on the website page, you’ll find a detailed description of which footpaths are currently accessible, as well as some history of the development and what is planned for public amenties there. 

I’ll aim to provide regular updates over the next few months as the developers progress the construction of the new road, since this is likely to have a significant effect on public access. The plan shown below (Fig. 1) was published at the start of the development project by Persimmon, and indicates the intended layout of the Park after development is complete.

Feel free to have a look round the rest of the website while you're there - there's plenty of interest to look at, and a lot of useful stuff available to download as well...

Why have I bothered to posted this 'taster' on Blogger, you may ask ? The answer is - Indexing…

For some reason, the 'Indexbots', those tireless little digital robots which endelssly trawl the net for new website content to index,  seem to be particularly drawn to Blogspot posts. These appear quite consistently to get  indexed virtually overnight; conventional websites can take much longer to update. 

Unfortunately none of this applies to 'Googlebots', which seem to studiously ignore all of Google's own products (e.g. Blogspot and Google Sites).  I've no idea why this is; given that it means that anyone who uses Google as their principal search engine (i.e. most of the online human population!) will actually be missing out on a substantial amount of new content, it seems a rather strange business model to adopt.....why not 'vote with your mouse', as I've done, and use one of the others such as Microsoft's Bing, or DuckDuckGo, which offers private searches...Yu could even choose a combi-search product. That way you'll be sure of not missing anything novel that Google hasn't yet caught up with...or just thinks is beneath its notice !

For anyone with a Google sites website/blog, or contemplating setting one up, it’s well worth noting this discrepancy for future reference…but don't expect to fathom the nature of the Google indexing system - many have tried and failed in the past...including, I suspect, Google employees themselves (Does anyone really understand it ?)

First published 15.6.25

Revised 25.10.25

Figure 1: Garendon Park & Estate: Facilities Plan (Wm Davis/Persimmon 2015)


 

 

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