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Work starts on Lichfield park revamp
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Restoration scheme will form part of wider initiative to transform the city's parks
New pathways for
Stoke country park
By Pete Hayman Natural England has officially
unveiled four new country walks
Work has started on a £3.5m and an outdoor classroom facility
scheme to restore and improve at Park Hall Country Park in
Beacon Park in Lichfield, Weston Coyney, Stoke-on-Trent.
Staffordshire, as part of a wider Walks around the park and the
local authority-led programme Hulme Quarry National Nature
to transform the city's parks. Reserve all link to the site's
The Lichfield Parks Project, a visitor centre, with a number of
joint venture between Lichfield routes offering walkers one of
City Council and Lichfield three different distances. Short
District Council (LDC), has routes range between 0.25-1 mile
received funding through the (0.4-1.6km); medium routes
Heritage Lottery Fund's Parks Work to restore the park will be carried out by the Casey Group between 0.7-2 miles (1.1-3.2km)
for People initiative. and longer routes between
A new café, a refreshment also result in the transformation visitors to our district, boosting 1.6-3.2 miles (2.6-5.1km) on
kiosk, a bowls and education of Minster Pool and Walk and local shops and businesses, each of the four walks.
pavilion and new play areas for the Garden of Remembrance. which is so important,
children of all ages will be LDC's cabinet member for especially during the current
Eastbourne park set
created as part of the project, development services, Neil economic climate."
for £60,000 upgrade
as well as the restoration of the Roberts, said: "It's so important HLF funding for Lichfield's Eastbourne Borough Council
park's listed structures. we preserve our historic green Beacon Park was confirmed in has approved plans to invest
The Casey Group has been spaces for future generations. April 2009 as part of a £3.9m £60,000 towards a programme
appointed to carry out work as Restoring our city parks will package to help fund the wider of work to improve the
part of the scheme, which will help to attract even more Lichfield Parks Project. biodiversity and appearance of
Hampden Park's Decoy Pond.
The funding has been made
Lincolnshire country park receives museum status
available as part of the council's
capital works programme for
By Pete Hayman 2010-11, which will go towards
efforts to improve the water
North Lincolnshire Council quality and enhance the pond's
(NLC) has revealed that natural habitats.
Normanby Hall Country Park
near Scunthorpe, Lincolshire,
Council unveils Thames
has been awarded museum
Promenade plans
status due to the historic nature

council Reading Borough Council (RBC)
of some of its features. has unveiled plans to create a
The park's Walled Garden new gateway into the town's
and Coach House are among

lincolnshire
th riverside parks as part of a wider
the attractions that have led to
:
nor
scheme designed to improve
the classification of the image Thames Promenade. The council's
newly-renamed Normanby Hall Normanby Hall includes a walled garden and a farming museum parks and open spaces team is
Museum and Country Park, looking to attract more visitors
which already includes a development of grass-cutting "Sport England is currently with a range of new and
Farming Museum. technology over the course of carrying out an Active People improved features as part of its
Normanby Hall's farming the last two centuries. telephone survey in the area, Thames Parks Plan, which could
attraction provides visitors with Christine O'Sullivan, NLC and some questions may ask include a pleasure boat mooring
the opportunity to explore cabinet member for sport, residents about the museums platform and a new picnic area.
rural life in North Lincolnshire leisure and culture said: "Many they have visited. A tree planting programme and
through a series of reconstruc- people who visit Normanby "So it is worth remembering new entrances to the riverside
tions, while the new Grass Hall or the Park often don't that if you have ever visited parks also form part of the
Roots exhibition for 2010 will realise they have visited a Normanby Hall, you have proposals, which have generated
enable visitors to explore the museum, but they have. visited a museum." an "encouraging response".
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