THE Deputy Mayor of Wellington is hoping that a secure lock-up style container on Fox’s Field will look something like the home of TV children’s favourites – The Teletubbies.

Wellington Town Council has already supported the Transition Town Wellington environmental group with a £4,500 grant to help fund the lock-up for its equipment and has now agreed a further £2,000 to finance an area of hard-standing and parking spaces to be created.

The TTW group will be playing a leading role in the Green Corridor project now Wellington Town Council has leased 64 acres of land from the Somerset West and Taunton Council which will see the area used for a number of things including allotments, nature conservation, forest gardens and a community farm.

But the Deputy Mayor of Wellington, Cllr Nancy Powell-Brace, speaking at the town council’s March monthly meeting on Monday (March 6), said she was hoping the container would look something similar to what they had done at the Gloucester Service Station on the M5 and had covered the roof of the building in grass and vegetation.

And then, in reference to The Tellytubbies, she added: “I hope they make the container look something like Tellytubbies Hill.”

Cllr Andrew Govier said: “Transition Town Wellington has got its heart in the natural environment and I’m sure they will do their best to make it look good.”

Cllr Catherine Govier added that she understood that Transition Town Wellington was going to put planting on top of the container to make it look more attractive.

The town council’s environment and open spaces committee recommended in January to make the £2,000 available for the hard-standing area at the entrance to Fox’s Field and this was verified by the full council onMarch 6.