Luton Millennium Green with the help of Arches Local Big Local in partnership with Medway Plus, Medway Council, and Magpie Growers have together won a bid to transform an untended area of the park in to a pocket park. The successful bid will bring £15,000.00 of funds to invest in the park, with Arches Local planning to match the capital element raising the total to £25,000.00.
The plans and ideas for the pocket park were formed by discussions with the local community at the recently held Arches Local open day at the Magpie Community Centre Café. Things discussed included developing a community orchard, a bug ‘hotel’ area, some robust train sleeper type seating, a rustic boundary fencing and some natural play. Arches Local have been active in trying to promote the sadly disused, and in parts run down park in line with its 1st year plan. With hosting events at the park most recently the Medway Youth Trust charity fete in 2015. The group believes with this Pocket Park, further investment, and continued community engagement, will ensure the parks legacy as a community asset for future generations.
Fantastic work Steve.
Great to see that we are creating lasting change!
Hi Thanks was really a team effort with major contributions from Medway Plus, Medway Council Greenspaces, Kent Wildlife Trust, and most importantly the Arches Local community for providing the majority of the input on what was needed at our open day!
I came across this area (Luton Millenium Green) quite by accident today and was amazed at how lovely it is. I never knew it existed before. Obviously a lot of work has gone into it this year and it was lovely for a stroll around. The trees with their autumnal leaves were also very attractive.
I do hope it will be well used.
Thank you for your comments and observations a lot of the local community ideas and effort have gone into the parks recent transformation. We hope that you come back and visit again soon as we are in the process of making more changes and improvements into the New Year! We cant wait to see how the wildflower meadow will look…
Hi I would like to make a surgessone as to have more red poo bin as I don’t think two are enought, we also need to make the owners of all dogs to keep them on leads as my dog has been attaced by other dog twice but on a positive note it’s a good part well done
Hi Marion thank you for your comments we will raise your concerns about having dogs on the lead with Medway Council. We agree we do need more red poo bins but in case you did not know can also put your dog poo in the main bin as well this was told to us by the Community Warden.