Morninghill pavement wins 2024 competition
“Our judges were hard-pressed to choose the overall winners because all the entries and nominations were beautiful.”
A Morninghill pavement took top honours during the NPO Better Bedfordview’s 2024 Best Pavements Competition.
This competition was the fifth annual event in which Better Bedfordview recognised residents and complexes whose well-maintained pavements improve, uplift and beautify Bedfordview.
The judges chose a beautiful, shady pavement on Munday Avenue as the best pavement this year.
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Better Bedfordview chairperson Marina Constas presented resident Loren Bagnall with the first prize, a R1 500 Eckards Garden Pavilion voucher sponsored by PKF Octagon.
Bagnall’s gardener, Jimmy Molope, joined her.
“Jimmy should take all the credit for managing and maintaining our pavement and garden.
“We are fortunate to have had him and his wife, Betty, share our family home and its management for 24 years,” said Bagnall.
This year’s judges were Carol Payne, who heads the NPO’s landscaping committee, previous winner Avril Kaplan, whose beautiful pavement took top honours in 2021, and plant and garden guru Wayne Stewart from the Eckards Garden Pavilion.
They chose the Michelangelo in Allengrove Road as the complex with the best pavement this year.
They also commended these pavements:
• Waterwise and wonderful category: 12 and 16 Saint Andrew’s Avenue.
• Succulent splendour category: 24 Allengrove Road.
• Colourful Charm category: 14 Warbleton Avenue and Cheetham Close complex in Bedford Park.
• Night-time spectacle category: 56 Milner Avenue.
• Best new pavement category: 52 Fairway Avenue.
• Standout complexes: Villa D’Argento, 30 Bowling Road; Martin Place, 5 John Avenue; and Le Jardin on Talisman Road.
“Our judges were hard-pressed to choose the overall winners because all the entries and nominations were beautiful,” Constas said.
“If your pavement was among them, you can be proud to be one of the best of some 8 000 pavements in Bedfordview.”
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Constas said all the previous winners deserved to be commended because their pavements are still stunning.
She thanked the 2024 entrants, nominees, and previous winners for bettering Bedfordview.
“Congratulations to our winners this year, and thank you to our judges. We can all make a positive difference in our suburb by looking after our pavements,” added Constas.
