Mallusk Village Improvement Project 2012-2015 PROGRESS TABLE
Update 11 Nov 2013
AREA
OBJECTIVE
LEAD PARTNER
PROGRESS/UPDATE
TRAFFIC
LIGHT
1. Academy Sports
Club Premises
-Full interior
refurbishment of
Academy social and
sports facilities
-new heating system
-new kitchen
- Changing rooms
showers, toilets
-Meeting/Social
areas
-Rewiring
- sports hall
revamped,
equipment
(a) create
landscaped
community activity
zone- sports/activity
area
fences/gates/signs;
resurface car park;
landscaping; murals;
trim trail
(b)Playgroup on site
(c) Play Area Refurb
and re naming after
Wm Morrison
Colin Petrie (ASC)
- Stage 1 Refurbishment
Completed Dec 2012 through
BIFFA AWARD Grant of £50K
and NBC Sport Capital Grant of
£17.5K
- Stage 2 Consortium submitting
bid for next stage of interior
refurbishment (Sports Hall,
downstairs area) to BIFFA
Award Nov 2013; NBC Capital
Programme (Jan 2014),
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2. Regeneration of
Village Hub area
around Academy
Sports Club
(a)Colin Petrie (ASC)
(b) Julie Vauls
(Mallusk Playgroup)
(c) Barry Macaulay
(MCAG)
(a) NBC Tech assistance grant to
be sought for plans; Lottery
Spaces and Places stage 1
application to be submitted in
Nov 2013; potential Sport NI
(April 2014)
(b) Playgroup on site and
operational from Sept 2013.
Funded from own
resource/NEELB grant.
(c) NBC has completed
refurbishment and will re name
the play park at a ceremony in
early 2014.
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3.General Village
Improvements
(a)welcome
signs/planters x4
(b) Village Xmas tree
(c) Village
banners/hanging
baskets/mural
(d) Heritage trail
interpretive boards
Barry Macaulay and
Richard Gregory
(MCAG)
4. Riverside
Teaching Area
-landscaped
-steps
-seating
-pond dipping
platform
-replace subsided
wall
Barry Macaulay and
Richard Gregory
(MCAG)
5. Mallusk
Cemetery
- Interpretive boards
- fences, hedges
-seating, bins
- Car Parking
-Historic graves
upgrade (Hope and
Biggar)
-plaque to mark Wm
Morrison grave
Margaret Lindsay,
Lindsay Matthews
and Kenny McFaul
(NBC)
(a)NBC and DRD considering
signs/planters
(b) Sustainable Xmas tree
successfully established
annually from 2012 (A4All fund)
(c) Funding to be sought for
banners /murals (NBC?)
(d)Trail Completed 2012 with
leaflets and interpretive boards
throughout Village (Funded by
IFI and NBC)
Biffa own the land and have
cleared it, planted shrubs, and
provided fencing and gate to
make a wildlife garden in
partnership with NBC
Biodiversity. Woodland Trust
donated 105 trees which were
planted with 300 bulbs at
community event in Nov.
DRD have committed to
repair/replace subsided wall
- Major refurb done by NBC in
Green Flag Status Awarded for
2012 and 2013
-Upgrade of 2 historic graves
plus Wm Morrison plaque
completed March 2013
-Everafter initiative to record
historical burials being
progressed
- Cladding completed on hut
and planters provided
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6. Football Pitch at
Cottonmount
- Refurbished pitch
- changing and
showering facilities
- car parking
- landscaping
Colin Wilson
(Mallusk Athletic
FC)
Lease secured with landowner;
negotiations with NBC re
transfer of changing facilities to
the site; potential bid to NBC for
Tech Assistance Grant;
BIFFAWARD Grant 2014
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