Renovation of Stamford Park

16th June 2009 at 6.30pm at Stalybridge Civic Hall, Community Room 2

Your Park Needs You! - Friends of Stamford Park meeting

A meeting for the Friends’ of Stamford Park has been arranged, 16th June at 6.30pm at Stalybridge Civic Hall in Community Room 2.

The Council has now submitted the final application for funding to the Heritage Lottery Fund and we are embarking on an exciting stage in the history of Stamford Park.  It is vital that we have strong community support and engagement with the park in order to meet the needs of the local community. 

The Friends of Stamford Park will play an important role in the future management of Stamford Park and therefore we want as many people as possible to get involved, at what ever level you can.  Some people may want to support the park by getting involved in events and activities whilst others may just want to show their support for the park by becoming a Friend but not being actively involved.  Either way please do come along to the meeting to find out more about the Friends.

The meeting should last about an hour, we will discuss what people want to achieve with a Friends’ Group, the principle issues affecting the park, and the Lottery bid for the restoration of the Park.  There will be tea, coffee and biscuits available to keep us all refreshed.

 Renovation of Stamford Park

Stamford Park is set for a major facelift after the public were consulted on an improvement wish list.

The raft of exciting developments was put together following extensive consultation with the various groups and individuals who enjoy using the park’s facilities.

The National Lottery has announced that Stamford Park is on track for a major transformation with a £203,500 development grant to back the exciting regeneration plans.

The go-ahead for Stamford Park to kick-start the scheme has come from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and the Big Lottery Fund’s £160million ‘Parks for People’ initiative.

Tameside Council will use the funding to further develop the scheme to transform and regenerate this much-loved park.

After asking the public what they would like to see as part of the original consultation, council park bosses then turned the wish list into a plan of action, which when complete will see the re-birth of one of the borough’s premier green open spaces.

Over 1,400 different suggestions and comments were made, which have been worked up into a list of proposals, some of which are highlighted below:

• New central café/community facility, including community rooms, toilets and park manager’s office
• Improved animal area
• A new performance area
• Improvements to: children’s facilities, entrances, signs and boundaries, seating, the play area and paths
• Restoration of the dingle woodland area

Project Head Cllr Sweeton said: “The first thing I wanted to say was a big thank you to all those who use the park and took part in our consultation, their input was invaluable. It’s obvious to me that a lot of our residents feel passionate, not only about the park’s past heritage but its future heritage as well.

“In essence the information they’ve given us is a comprehensive view of how it could look and be managed in the future and can be seen as our long term vision for the park’s future.

“The key findings for me so far are that people seem to love the park’s heritage and character, they want to visit it as a destination and that they share our passion to improve the park. I’m excited that we are doing the best we can for the park and our residents.”

The Master Plan

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Landscape Strategy

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