A garden for the whole of Stroud

Trying to establish how large a ‘neighbourhood or locality’ we can claim is served by the Courtyard Garden has been difficult. However, we have now been advised by a planner experienced in Town Green applications that it would be reasonable in this case to say that it served everyone within the Parish of Stroud.

This boundary would include the lady I photographed on Saturday. She had been to see the Shaping the Heart of Stroud exhibition at the Subs, and was eating her lunch before walking back home to Uplands.

As she observed, lots of people moved to Stroud so that they could be within walking distance of the town centre - and this the perfect place for a snack in the early spring sunshine.

Mike Goodenough