22nd August 2019
Issue 1075
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Friends of High Green parks
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New ‘Pocket Park’ opened in Stocksbridge
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Your Letters Thorncliffe Playing Fields Dear Sir, After a seven year battle to bring the bowls, tennis and MUGA area into community control we now need help from the community to make this an accessible and used area for the people of High Green.
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Friends of High Green parks is now duly constituted and insured.
After such a long battle many of those who worked The group aims to help maintain, improve and to get this far have moved on for a range of reasons. increase our parks activities and equipment. We now need people to volunteer to make the next Early days so join up and get in at the beginning, stage of development work. help shape our parks to fit our community. Our plans are to create a community pavilion, develop the tennis and bowls facilities, provide a men’s shed and engage the community in using Dave Ogle, and maintaining these resources. Other ideas also Councillor, welcomed. High Green. To do this we need help with grant applications, a fund raiser and people who are experienced in planning and delivering building projects.
As a matter of urgency would anyone willing to be involved in this or who would like more information please get in touch as there is a real danger of this site passing back to the city council if local people do not come forward to make it work for their community.
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The project was developed by local charity, the Steel Valley Project, following a survey of people in the area which looked at how the outdoors could be improved for people and wildlife. The results identified that there was a need for more children’s play facilities so, in conjunction with Sheffield City Council, the charity identified the area of open space on Cedar Road and drew up plans for the site. The funding for the work has come from a variety of sources, including Sheffield City Council, Stocksbridge Town Council, Stocksbridge
An information panel explaining more about the work which has taken place and three new benches were the final addition to the new Pocket Park.
With work on the Cedar Road Pocket Park now finished, the space has been transformed. It includes a natural play area for children with sandstone boulders, stepping logs and a balancing beam, plus newly planted trees and a wildflower meadow which will be full of colour in the summer months and provide a home for wildlife.
Speaking about the project, Steel Valley Project Manager, Tom Newman, said: “This initiative has provided a great opportunity for collaboration between local authorities, residents, Steel Valley Project volunteers and local contractors. The natural play area incorporates locally sourced sandstone and oak and allows children to play in imaginative ways.
Sheffield chainsaw sculptor, Lorraine Botterill, was commissioned to create wood carvings of wildlife designs on the large oak logs, which children at Stocksbridge Junior School helped to design and put the finishing touches on the sculptures with hand chisels.
“Undertaking this programme of work has allowed Steel Valley Project to develop a new service which can now be offered to other organisations such as schools and parks who may wish to create similar natural play areas.�
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