Report to:
Lead Member - Environment
Lead Member – Customer & Support Services
From: -
Strategic Director for Environment
Prepared by: Alan Rowley, Service Development & Projects Manager
Date: -
7th August 2007
Subject: -
District Park - Capital/Revenue proposals 2008-11
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1.1
Purpose of Report.
Lead Environment & Customer & Support Services
To inform Lead Members on the outcomes of the community Master
Planning exercise undertaken between July 2006 and June 2007 and to
secure agreement to the budgetary requirements for the District Park
programme 2008-2011.
1.2
Lead Member Environment
To secure agreement to developing proposals for Peel Park in Little Hulton
from the 2007/8 allocation
2.0
Detail
2.1
The Greenspace strategy adopted by the City Council in 2006, identified 10
parks that should be elevated to and maintained at the District standard.
These are listed in Table 1.
Table 1
Parks to achieve District standard as defined in the Greenspace Strategy.
1) Albert Park (Salford East)
2) Buile Hill park (Claremont/Weaste)
3) Cadishead park (Irlam &
Cadishead)
4) Eccles Recreation Ground (Eccles)
5) Mandley Park (Salford East)
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6) Ordsall Park (Ordsall &
Langworthy)
7) Parr Fold Park (Worsley,
Boothstown and Walkden)
8) Peel Park ( Walkden & Little
Hulton)
9) Prince’s Park (Irlam & Cadishead)
10) Victoria Park (Swinton)
By March 2007, four parks had achieved the District standard; These were
1) Buile Hill Park, 2) Parr Fold Park, 3) Prince’s Park and 4) Victoria Park.
The latter has also achieved the national accredited Green Flag standard,
three years running.
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2.3
Since the commencement of the programme in 2005, approximately
80,000 extra people, living in 38,000 households, now have access to a
District park as defined in the Greenspace strategy. The funding to achieve
this improvement is identified in Table 2.
Table 2
District Park Improvement Programme
Capital funding allocated to physical park improvements between the
period April 2005 and March 2007.
Location
SCC
S106
Lottery
L.A.A
Totals
£
£
£
£
£
Albert Park
53,000
53,000
Buile Hill Park
10,000
10,000
Cadishead Park
nil
Eccles Rec;
5,000
17,000
86,000
108,000
Mandley Park
108,000
108,000
Ordsall Park
nil
Parr Fold Park
450,000
450,000
Peel Park
29,000
98,000
127,000
Prince’s Park
120,000
108,000
130,000
358,000
Victoria Park
24,000
24,000
Totals
Funding source
total
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% of
178,000
377,000
47%
14%
31%
98,000 1,238,000
8%
In the Summer of 2006, the Environment Directorate’s Senior
Management Team approved the allocation of £84,000 from the City
Council’s capital fund to the development of Master plans for the six parks
falling below the District standard in March 2007. These were as follows:
1) Albert Park
4) Mandley Park
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585,000
2) Cadishead Park 3) Eccles Recreation Ground
5) Ordsall Park
6) Peel Park, Little Hulton
Urban Vision was commissioned in the Summer of 2006 to work with local
communities on the development of the Masterplans. These are attached
as Appendix 1 and their formal adoption by the City Council will follow a
separate process commencing in September 2007. The estimated cost of
delivering the full content of these visionary plans is £12.04million.
However, the City Council’s commitment is to raise these parks to the
District standard only and any improvements beyond that will need to be
supported from external grants. The financial estimates, attached as
Appendix 2, identify the following;
a) The total capital cost of delivering the 6 community masterplans for each
park.
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b) The total capital and revenue costs of bringing the six parks up to the
District standard, focusing on the community’s priorities wherever
practicable.
(Note: These figures assume that Council revenue funding will be made available to support the salaries for the
externally funded ranger posts)
c) The external funding already available to support b) above.
d) The capital & revenue funding now required from the City Council or other
sources to ensure targets are met.
2.7
There is sufficient funding within the 2007/8 capital allocation to ensure the
District standard is achieved at Peel Park in Little Hulton. Achieving District
standard at the 5 remaining sites by March 2011 will require financial
support from the Council as identified in Table 3 below.
Table 3
Capital & Revenue support required from the Council between the period
2008 and 2011.
Location
Capital
2007/8
£
Albert Park
Cadishead
Park
Eccles Rec;
Mandley
Park
Ordsall Park
Parr Fold
Park
Peel Park
Totals
2008/9
£
2009/10
£
Annual Revenue
2010/11
£
2007/8
£
2008/9
£
98,000
10,700
363,840
14,700
40,000
2009/10
£
2010/11
£
189,000
29,700
369,000
20,700
500,000
25,700
13000
463,000
463,000
17,700
501,000
500,000
558,000
17,700
Accumulative revenue totals
25,400
56,100
25,700
50,400
81,800
132,200
Estimates based on 2007/8 rates and exclude Buile Hill Park which is presently ‘just’ achieving the minimum standard for
District and it is hoped that funding will become available from external sources.
3.0
Recommendations
3.1
Lead Member Environment
That approval is given to the development of detailed proposals for Peel
Park in Little Hulton from the 2007/8 allocation.
3.2
That the capital and revenue funding programme identified in Table 3 is
approved.
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