Blondin Park

Friends of Blondin Summer Event

Date: 
Sun 18 Jul 2010 14:00
Location: 
Blondin Park

Wildflower walk, children's activities and BBQ.

See http://www.friendsofblondin.org.uk

What’s happening in Blondin Park?

If you have not visited Blondin Park for a while you may be in for a surprise. Thanks to funding from the Northfields Ward Forum we now have new benches and bins and a path all round the perimeter (approximately 1 km), surfaced in ‘hoggin’ which is just right for those who like to jog round the park to keep fit. Keeping up the fitness theme, we also have a new MUGA (multi-use games area) in the corner of the sports field. In the nature reserve the pond has been re-excavated and re-lined and hopefully will soon be re-filled.

Blondin park allotments expansion

Local people attending the Northfield Ward Forum on 8 January agreed to spend £30,000 out of the Forum’s £40,000 budget for the current financial year on improvements to Blondin Park. £20,000 of the total is to be spent on:

  • 6 benches and 5 new waste bins
  • refurbishment of the entrance signs, gates and railings
  • shrubbery improvements

Two alternative proposals have been made for spending the remaining £10,000. These are:

  • expanding the allotment site into the grassed area of Blondin Park, or
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