New look on way for city park
A BRISTOL park is getting a new look thanks to money from the city council and local fundraisers.
Gores Marsh Park will see its play area extended, and new paths and seating installed after a £60,000 investment.
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Carol Williamson, Janet Carr-Hyde, Julie Morse and David Carr-Hyde in Gores Marsh Park BRBE20121004D-002_C
The Gores Marshals (Friends of Gores Marsh Park) and local residents helped raise £11,000 towards the new equipment, with the remaining £49,000 coming from Bristol City Council.
The improvements to the park, in Bedminster, will see an extension built on the popular play area, including a new and challenging "aerial runway" and bank slide.
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Additional seating and a new link path between the play area and Hengrove Road will also been added.
This is the first of many park investments planned for Bristol's local green spaces over the next two years.
"Parks are at the heart of our local communities and investment in parks is one of our priorities," says Councillor Gary Hopkins, Bristol's executive member for environment and community safety.
"Play areas in parks and basic park infrastructures, such as footpaths, have until recently suffered years of neglect. Now, these key areas have been highlighted for targeted investment and improvement.
"The city council has set aside a massive £3.5m for park improvement works over the next two years and this will be achieved by working closely with local people."
Comments
by PJ1979
Friday, October 05 2012, 10:15AM
“@Harry12911
Thanks.
I'm not sure that changing the name sightly has fooled anyone or changed anything, its still a TVG.”
by harry12911
Friday, October 05 2012, 9:59AM
“PJ1979 - It was always simply known as Gores Marsh.
The park bit has been added by the council recently to hide the fact that it is a successful example of a Town Green.”
by PJ1979
Friday, October 05 2012, 9:54AM
“@harry12911
Gores Marsh Park is as its name implies a park. One that happens to have a TVG designation that protects it from development. Are you suggesting that they should change the name to reflect this?”
by PE175
Friday, October 05 2012, 9:50AM
“"Parks are at the heart of our local communities and investment in parks is one of our priorities"
There speaks the totally unbelivable Gary Hopkins.
How this object of a councillor can be allowed to utter such rubbish is beyond me.
Knowle West, it has a bit of a name, requires a bit of cleaning up, a bit of help here and there.
So why Mr Hopkins is the park at Fillwood being turned into a building site, the local community have pleaded to retain their park, they applied for a TVG but it was rejected, but the green space near Whitchurch Asda was given a TVG status I wonder who the councillor is local to the Whitchurch green, now who is the balding thin one is it Laurel or is it Hardy.
"parks are the heart of our local communities" Hopkins 2012.
The community in Fillwood want their park so why Mr Hopkins is it being destroyed.
Hopkins is a wind up toy like Cook just feed him the lines and pull the string and out it comes, he dosn`t know the difference between a Town green, Green Space or a park as far as this council is concerned they are just building sites that got away.
Also Mr Hopkins why is Hengrove green space being used as a tip, why is all of the rubbish left by the travellers still there, why is one of the waste contractors for the councill dumping their waste in the park and not in their yard, including gutter waste from the sweep vehicles.
And last night when Negus was praising the "i wonder when it will happen, when did the Broadway cinema shut" rebuilding of Fillwood, he mentioned the new unrequired Business park being built on the old Hanger site at Fillwood but he failed to praise the destructon of the communities park next door, part of the same development.
Last night at the council meeting it wasn`t just the Laurel and Hardy act it was the three stooges, Kent,Hopkins,Negus ,Cook is so bad I just cant include him in the act.
I think Negus last night commented that it may appear that Knowle West may be seen as the prospective building site of Bristol, and this would be of benefit to the local communities, what utter tripe, lets reword it "We the Council have found a ideal dumping ground many of Bristols new houses ,we will use all of the green spaces we can steal in Knowle West and make the local people believe it is for their benefit".
The only people that will gain from this exercise is the rest of Bristol that is not being built on.”
by harry12911
Friday, October 05 2012, 8:42AM
“Gary Hopkins - If you look at the Council's own records you will see that Gores Marsh is not a park at all but a Town Green !
Another successful Town Green in Bristol serving the community and protected from development.”