Restoration of Dartmouth Park - We Need Your Help
Published February 20, 2008 in news
During November, community arts organisation Multistory were commissioned by Community First Partnership to work with a group of young people from the Greets Green Youth Forum, as part of a series of consultation workshops taking place across the borough, about the restoration of Dartmouth Park.
Work started on the £6.2M restoration project back in 2006 when Sandwell Council made an application to the joint funded Big Lottery and Heritage Lottery Funds’ Parks for People programme for funding to restore and enhance Dartmouth Park in west Bromwich. This was called the stage 1 submission.
The project is now in the “development stage”, where the work done as part of the stage 1 is revisited and detailed plans and costs are added. Once this is completed Sandwell Council will then make a stage 2 submission in March 2008 and if successful, work will begin on the ground in 2009.
Proposed improvements include:
• Enhance park entrances, boundary walls and railings.
• Tree and shrub thinning, new planting and bedding displays.
• New, improved footpaths throughout the park and accessibility from neighbouring areas.
• Enhanced play facilities including a skate park.
• Restore a performance area for events.
• A new pavilion with refreshments and toilets
• New benches, bins, signage and information boards.
For more information on the project go to: www.dartmouthpark.sandwell.gov.uk
Workshops
Rich Franks from Multistory and illustrator Duane Leslie (of SHAPE comic) worked with the young people to look at the proposed plans and to come up with ideas of potential future events and activities that could take place in the park’s proposed events and performance spaces and in the Pavilion.
The young people took photos of the park and of each other acting out their ideas. These images and ideas were then used by Duane to create a series of illustrations, showing what it will look like if these events and activities take place in the park in the future.
We Need Your Help
We want to know what type of events would make you visit the park and what activities and events you would like to see happen in the park in the future, especially in the proposed performance space. Perhaps you might like to see an open air concert, join a football club or go to a performance by a local band or dance group?
Please leave your comments and ideas below
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I’d certainly like to see open air concerts in the park, especially of local bands and performers.
Comment by Keith Bloomfield — February 26, 2008 @ 5:40 pm
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