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Revamp plan for Fulwood park
Revamp: Nigel Parker of Sharoe Green Residents Association at Aysgarth Avenue park
Residents are being urged to rally round plans to give an area its first modern playpark.
Sharoe Green Residents’ Association has unveiled a masterplan to rejuvenate a run-down play area at the end of Levensgarth Avenue in Fulwood.
The park has just three pieces of rusting play equipment at the moment, is plagued with problems with drainage and has no disabled access, with pushchairs having to negotiate boggy grass to get to the swings and seesaw.
The residents’ group has been driving a bid to transform the tired area and has worked with local school children to help draw up a blueprint for how the park could look.
The £110,000 scheme includes new adventure play equipment, better drainage, new pathways and a sensory garden for those with disabilities.
Now they are looking for more cash to help get the first phase of work off the ground.
The first batch of work will cost £55,000, with £7,500 already in the pot from two grants and residents working hard to raise the rest of the cash.
Nigel Parker, chairman of Sharoe Green Residents’ Association, said: “The equipment that is there now is circa the 1970s and there is not a single pathway onto the park.
“Sometimes it’s like a bog: when it rains, it is virtually unusable.
“We’ve got three parks in this area but none have disabled access and the nearest modern park is Mill Lane at Cadley Causeway.
“There are 3,000 houses in our community association (area).
“That’s a lot of kids with no proper place to play.”
Residents will be raising more cash by holding a bag-packing day at Booths supermarket in Fulwood in May and organising a craft fair.
Booths has also offered the group its cafe to hold meetings and events.
Nigel added they would also welcome any help from more businesses, particularly anyone who could sort out the drainage issues at the park.
He said: “We are targetting a very large environmental grant which would get phase one underway, but to qualify for this grant, we currently need to raise around £14,000 (in match-funding).
“This project could lift the area enormously in providing something that local folk could enhance over the years and take a real pride in.”
Email ayngarth-sgsca@yahoo.co.uk or call Nigel on 01772 774948 to find out how to get involved.
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