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Stage 1 Pass: Round 1 Pass: Bushey, The Rose Garden, Hertsmere Borough Council Contact Name: Fiona Leadley Contact Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Number: 0208 207 7512 The Rose Garden project is aimed at restoring the Rose Garden back to its natural beauty. This process will include the restoration of the garden, its grade 11 listed buildings and structures, hard landscaping and historic planting. The project will also aim to raise awareness of the gardens and develop its potential as a local structure and educational resource. Recent correspondence with the Project Manager suggests the project is working well and all objectives have been met. It is expected that the Garden will be closed for around 1 year as the work is carried out. Stevenage Town Centre Gardens, Stevenage Borough Council Contact Name: Julia Knight Contact Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Number: 01438 242900 The Stevenage Town Centre Gardens project has two main objectives. Firstly, it will try to increase the usage of the Gardens by the public, specifically especially those who use the Town Centre. Secondly, the project will try to improve the level of involvement which the community will have in the management and running of the park. It will offer volunteering and training opportunities for both Stevenage Borough Council, North Hertfordshire College and voluntary/community groups including people with learning difficulties and special needs. Howard Park & Gardens, Letchworth Garden City, North Hertfordshire District Council Contact Name: Keith Gayner Contact Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Number: 01462 474553 The aims of this project are to reverse the decline of the Park by using a variety of strategies. These include increasing the range of audiences using the park and gardens, conserving and interpreting the heritage value, encouraging volunteer involvement, and providing training to sustain effective and efficient management. It will also develop a community based management organisation that will ensure improved, responsive, management and maintenance. In order to support these aims the project proposes to conserve, repair, and re-create historic features and memorials, reclaim car parking back to parkland and add disabled parking and drop off areas. It will also renew the play area, public toilet provision, and provide refreshment kiosk to meet community demands. Moggerhanger Park, Bedfordshire, Moggerhanger House Preservation Trust Contact Name: John Drake Contact Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Number: 01223 292246 The aims of the project are to restore the park by renovating the landscape through several key plans. These include the restoration of existing listed buildings, improving the entrance to the park, recommencement of sheep grazing, the replacement of overgrown vegetation with new trees and shrubs, and resurfacing of tarmac and drives. The project also aims to undertake a variety of community involvement plans such as increasing the 'ownership' the local community has of the park and increasing the range of uses the park currently has. Finally, the project aims to improve visitor appreciation through a number of strategies including improving the park for disabled visitors, providing suitable accommodation for a gardener and volunteers, setting aside part of the park for large scale events, and setting aside an area for visitor car parking. Stage 1 passCedars Park, Cheshunt, The Council of the Borough of Broxbourne Contact Name: Clare Watson Contact Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Number: 01992 785 555 The Cedars Park project aims carry out significant and wide-ranging development work, including the engagement of various design professionals in its delivery. This will include protected species surveys, interpretation design and scripting and plant propagation and recording. Design and restoration is also a major focus for the project with an onus on archaeological development, such as geophysical surveys, site investigations and drainage work, and PPG 16 Archaeological investigations. Public consultation and community events activities will be used to develop the following project proposals, the creation of an accessible interpretative tour around the park to reveal the scheduled monument repair and restoration of historic brick walls and features currently 'at risk', restoration of historic pathways to reveal the archaeology of the palace and its grounds and improvements of pedestrian routes to and around the park. There will the renewal and replacement of park furniture to create a unified visual appearance, new play activities and events appropriate to the park's landscape and its history, including creation of a play maze, arboriculture and landscaping works to reopen historic views, protect archaeology, improve park screening and recreate elements of the significant historical planting. Relocation and upgrade of the cafe and toilets, provision of a community meeting and education room and the relocation of the car park to a less sensitive location The recruitment of a Community Engagement and Learning Development Officer on a fixed term contract will support development activities, particularly in terms of developing volunteering, partnerships and increased park use and access by local schools and the community, particularly hard to reach groups. Round 1 passFelixstowe Seafront Gardens, Felixstowe, Suffolk Coastal District Council Contact Name: Caroline Driver Contact Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Contact Number: 01394 444239 Felixstowe was a village at the time of the Norman conquest, but only became a significant port in the late 1800s. It is now the largest container port in the UK. Around the same time as the port expanded, Felixstowe became a fashionable resort, initiated by the arrival of the railway and a visit by the German Imperial family. The town now has a population of c.29,000 a key attraction in the heyday of the resort, and a defining characteristic of the town, were the Seafront Gardens that were developed along and adjacent to the Red Crag cliff that separates the town from the beach. The Felixstowe Seafront Gardens (namely the Town Hall, Cliff, and Spa Gardens), and referred to here as the ‘Gardens’, developed over the coming years, and have provided pleasure to locals and visitors alike for over 100 years. Their heritage value was recognised by English Heritage in 2003 when the Gardens were awarded a Grade II designation within the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. The seafront gardens at Felixstowe lie along the coast, within the town setting of Felixstowe which is itself located c.15km south-east of Ipswich. The site, which is laid out on the face of, and at the base of a cliff, covers c.3ha. It is divided into three sections: the Town Hall Garden which is the most southerly; the Spa Gardens surrounding the Spa Pavilion; and running north-east from these, the Cliff Gardens, formerly part of the Felix Hotel grounds. The Town Hall Garden is bordered to the south-east by Undercliff Road West, to the north-west by Wolsey Gardens on top of the cliff, to the east by shops, and to the west by the Town Hall. The Spa Gardens and Cliff Gardens face the sea promenade to the south-east, are bordered by Hamilton Gardens and the grounds of the former Felix Hotel to the north-west along the top of the cliff, and by shops and houses to the east and west. |
