Minutes:
Rebecca Towers (RT) and her colleagues from the Parks and Open Spaces section presented this item and conducted the workshops.
RT told the meeting that the council had recently been successful in securing £6m for Burgess Park, £2m from the Mayor of London and £4m from the Aylesbury New Deal for Communities (NDC).
Following on from these successes, the council had invited proposals from developers for improving the park. RT said that they had received 25 applications and would be short-listing five of these by the end of July. The main criteria for the entries would be the quality of the designs and how well they used the money available.
The meeting then split into working groups and discussed the following issues:
The feedback was as follows:
What is your vision for the Park?
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• Diverse community planting • Lighting in Winter period • Attractive Planting, trees • Variety of spaces • Secure cycle parking • Dog exercise area • Café • Signposts to local landmarks • More toilets • Quality pathways • Open areas to use for events • Park should have a Head Gardener • Safe park
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• Small 5 a side – sports for young people • More wardens • Secluded area where one can sit - separate area • Foliage • All entrances to be decorated • Local Art Commissioning • Organise more events, e.g. May Fair, dog days • Famous people in the local community, e.g. statutes, pictures
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How do you want to feel when you go to a park?
• Safe – First aid on site
• Secure – No dark spaces, adequate lightning, low level planting, staff presence, peaceful, place to lock up bikes
• Tranquillity - water elements, seating areas with views, scented plants
• Inspired - nature elements, weather
• Relaxed - full of families relaxing, kids, community services
• Private – more private spaces
Do you have any positive memories of the Park?
• Healthy Walks – Surrey Canal Walk - would be nice to have art works on the wall
• Tranquillity
• Taking pictures of fishermen at lake area
• Children’s play area
• Events – Vibration
• Bonfire night
• Notice board
• Good grass
• Cafe
RT encouraged residents to get in touch with her at Rebecca.Towers@southwark.gov.uk, if they wanted to contribute further comments or items to the consultation.