Bingo Winners
Residents of
Ferniehill are to benefit from a new and improved community park
following the collapse and demolition of the houses at Ferniehill.
There is now an area of
open ground roughly double the original grassed area with its childrens’
play-ground. This is bordered by Ferniehill Road, Ferniehill Street and
Ferniehill Way.
City of Edinburgh
Council regard this as a unique opportunity to create a superb community
park, created, used and named by local people. The Council will be
working hard with local people through steering groups and consultation
to achieve this aim.
An Open Day has been
held at Ferniehill Portacabins and a steering group has been set up.
This group has the responsibility of developing permanent proposals for
the site and for keeping the local community informed and involved in
this.
On the steering group
there are local residents, housing development, housing management and
recreation staff and the local councillor, Sheila Gilmore. The group
also has its own landscape architect.
While the permanent
proposals are being developed, interim landscaping works are being put
in place. Following comments from the Open Day the steering group has
approved these temporary plans.
These consist of
grassing, fencing off vulnerable areas and the introduction of temporary
footpaths. The works contractor will begin on 9th or 16th of July
depending of the availability of materials over the trades holiday. The
work should take 2-3 weeks to complete.
The steering group has
now produced a first draft for the permanent proposals and this is going
out to consultation. This is a concept plan, showing which part of the
park should be put to what use. This plan is based on the suggestions
from the Open Day questionnaires, and includes a toddlers play area,
teenage area and garden area.
The current design is
making the most of the superb views of the park over the city, in line
with feedback received at the open day.
The plan will be on
display at Gilmerton Community Centre at Drum Street, at the South Local
Housing Office at Captain’s Road and hopefully at the Library at
Newtoft Street (if space permits) from Wednesday 1st to Wednesday 22nd
of August. There will be response sheets for you to give feedback on
what you think of these plans.
On Thursday the 23rd of
August there will be an Open day at Gilmerton Community Centre, Drum
Street from 2-4 and 6-8pm.
By this time the
landscape architect will have had time to add more detail to the plans.
He will also be there to discuss the plans with you along with staff
from City of Edinburgh Council Housing Development and Recreation Dept.
This is only a first
draft and will be improved in line with the feedback from you!
NAME THE PARK
COMPETITION!
We have ideas from
you as to what should be in the park, but
no ideas as to what to call it!
Go down in local
history as the person who named Ferniehill
community park!
Send your suggestion
to Heather Bayley, Housing Development, Level 3, 23-25 Waterloo Place,
Edinburgh EH1 3BH.
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