Bristol City Council’s 16-week consultation on a plan to sell off 62 green spaces is due to come to an end next Friday. Today, we look at Ashley, Easton and Lawrence Hill.

ONLY one green space in this part of Bristol has been put forward for potential sale but it is currently used as a children's play area.

The site is in Great Ann Street, near Old Market, and the council wants to move it over the road to the corner of Great George Street and Eyer's Lane.

The new children's play area would be larger.

The move would free up the Great Ann Street site to be used by Bristol City Council's Housing Revenue Account.

The HRA is the fund where council tenants' rents are collected from all over the city, but the authority has not been able to confirm whether the site would be used for office space or sold to help fund running costs.

Four more sites are listed for potential development under the separate site allocation document, which the council is also consulting on until next Friday, although none of these are green spaces.

They include the former laundry and dye works at South Street, which could be developed into 80 homes.

The former petrol station facing Church Road could have 31 homes built on it; the car sales site along Heber Street could be turned into nine more.

The public car park at Ducie Road could be redeveloped into seven homes because the council says it is underused.

The council has put forward a number of ideas for areas that could be improved when money raised from the green spaces land sales is reinvested over the 20-year period of the project.

Although it won't have the money to fund them all, the authority wants residents to say which they would prefer.

Proposals for this part of the city include improvements to more than 20 parks and open spaces.

Ideas include an allotments area for green space in Peel Street, a wildlife area for St Werburgh's Park and a water feature for Temple Gardens Park.

Rawnsley Park could see a new entrance, town square and public art among other changes. The stream that runs through Mina Road Park would become a focal point for that area, with new landscaping, while the children's play area would be upgraded.

The play area from Ashley Street Park, though, would be lost.

And Owen Square Park could see a number of new activities for teenagers, including outdoor table tennis tables, climbing walls, a shelter and multi-games area.

Council spokeswoman Helen Hewitt stressed there was still a week to go for residents to have their say.

She said: "The plans give local people some suggested ideas of what the next 20 years could bring in terms of investment in our parks and land disposals."

To view the detailed proposals go to www.bristol.gov.uk/agsp.

● What do you think of the proposals for your area? Email s.rkaina@bepp.co.uk or write to Sam Rkaina, Evening Post, Temple Way, Bristol, BS99 7HD.