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HLF earmarks funding for 11 parks
iN brief
Urban parks to use cash boost for major redevelopment works across the UK
New community
woodland for Southport
By Pete Hayman A new £1.78m community
woodland has been unveiled by
Victoria Gardens in Neath, the Forestry Commission in
South Wales, is set to benefit Southport, Lancashire, which has
from new visitor facilities after transformed two former landfill
the Heritage Lottery Fund sites as part of the wider
(HLF) awarded £1.39m towards Newlands partnership. The
a major renovation of the Northwest Regional Development
Grade II-listed park. Agency provided funding
A further 10 UK parks – in- towards the scheme. A new
cluding Forty Hall Park in viewing platform overlooking
Enfield, London; Haddo the West Pennine Moors,
Country Park in Ellon, Ab- Southport Mosses and Blackpool
erdeenshire and Cwmdonkin Haddo County Park in Ellon was among the parks to get funding Tower has been created as part
Park, Swansea – have netted of the 26-hectare (64-acre)
first-round passes to draw up National Eisteddfod of Wales. Cwmdonkin Park has woodland. It is anticipated that a
detailed proposals for a Forty Hall Park has received received more than £19,000 cycle trail, a mountain bike skills
confirmed funding award. £100,000 to help develop its development funding, which course and new wildlife habitats
Built in 1897 to provide open bid for a £1.3m grant towards a will go towards restoring one of will also be created.
space for the town's expanding conservation and restoration the oldest municipal parks in
population, Neath's Victoria scheme, while Haddo Country Wales. Cyfarthfa Park in
Yorkshire canal
Gardens boasts a bandstand Park has been handed initial Merthyr Tydfil received £1.93m
heritage deal struck
and a circle of Gorsedd stones support worth £93,500 in its after being handed a first- British Waterways (BW) has
– a set of standing stones bid to secure £993,500 towards round pass towards a scheme announced that it has reached an
constructed for the 1918 a makeover of the park. to restore the parkland. agreement with English Heritage
and East Riding of Yorkshire
Council to secure the future of
Views sought over Yorkshire park extension plans
historical structures along the
Pocklington Canal. It is hoped the
By Pete Hayman Heritage Partnership Agreement
will improve the management of
Natural England has launched a structures along the canal by
new three-month public using BW's existing policies and
consultation to gather com- principles to increase the
ments on proposed extensions standard of repair works. The deal
to the Lake District and will run for a five-year period and
Yorkshire Dales National Parks. provides the potential for a
The independent natural further five-year spell beyond
environment advisory body 2014 to preserve the canal.
aims to determine whether the
areas earmarked for inclusion
Woodland search
within the respective park
engine to drive tourism
boundaries display the The plans would expand the size of the two National Parks The Woodland Trust is to
necessary qualities for National launch a searchable online
Park status. District National Park include events will be held to raise database of more than 24,000
Areas set to be incorporated Birkbeck Fells to Whinfell and awareness. publicly accessible woods as part
into the Yorkshire Dales Helsington Barrows to Sizergh Poul Christensen, Natural of plans to increase visitor
National Park include Firbank Fell and the Lyth Valley. England chair, said: "It is fitting numbers at the sites. Called
Fell, Northern Howgill Fells, The consultation, scheduled that, 60 years since the National VisitWoods, the project has
Mallerstang and Wild Boar Fell, to run between mid-December Parks Act came into being, we received £1.2m worth of funding
Middleton, Barbon and Leck 2009 and mid-March 2010, will have a unique opportunity to from the Natural England's
Fells and Lower Lune Valley and feature a questionnaire look at a major expansion of Access to Nature scheme. The
adjacent fells. Meanwhile, sites available both online and as a two of England's most cherished service is expected to go online
poised for inclusion in the Lake paper copy, while a series of protected areas." in Autumn 2010.
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