The St George Neighbourhood Partnership Environment Sub-Group led on the development of the Plan. Find out more about the group and the work to put the plan into action at www.stgeorgenp.org.uk/subgroups/environment.
How the Plan was developed
 The council has been working towards an improvement plan for parks and open spaces in each Neighbourhood Partnership, known as Area Green Space Plans since 2007. Their role is to help decision making when investing in green spaces in the long term and they act at a strategic level and provide a broad framework and seek to deliver the policies and standards of the Parks and Green Space Strategy.
The overall aim is to provide an equality of access to different types of spaces and park facilities and set out the investment priorities for the area.
The Neighbourhood Partnership has a role in deciding how and where money should be spent on the parks and open spaces in your area as part of a long term plan. This means drawing up a list of spending priorities – what parks are in most need of money and what facilities they need.
The sub-group was asked by the SGNP to take the lead in developing the plan and at our meeting in April we agreed to set up a series of workshop sessions to do this. The first session was on Thursday 30 June 2011 at the Air Balloon School, invitations were sent to people who had taken part in or expressed an interest in the earlier stages of the process, or been involved in the Neighbourhood Partnership. There was a good turnout at this meeting and the decision was taken to hold four further workshops, each covering a separate geographical area of St George.
The workshops took place as below:
St George Park
Tuesday 2nd August – 7pm at Beehive Centre, Stretford Road BS5 7AW - notes of meeting
Hudds Vale, Plummers Hill, Meadow Vale, Rodney Rd & Primrose Lane
Tuesday 9th August – 7pm at Meadow Vale Community Centre, Speedwell BS5 7RF - notes of meeting
Meg Thatchers, Furber Rd & Colebrook Rd
Thursday 18th August – 7pm at Wesley Church Hall, Bryants Hill BS5 8QS - notes of meeting
Troopers Hill, Dundridge, Magpie Bottom & River Avon Trail
Tuesday 23rd August – 7pm at St Aidan's Church Hall, Fir Tree Lane BS5 8TZ - notes of meeting
Having completed these meetings covering the four geographical areas of St George; we needed to put together a plan for the whole of St George. Rather than holding an extra meeting we asked for residents' views on this via a survey at the St George Neighbourhood Partnership Forum on Tues 6th September at Air Balloon Primary School. The results of the survey are here:
St George Green Space Investment Plan Survey Results >>
A draft plan based on this and earlier consultations was considered at the Environment Sub-group meeting on Thursday 13th October 2011. The final version of the plan was adopted by the Neighbourhood Partnership at its December 2011 meeting.
Other information and documents
St George Green Space Investment Plan - Next Steps
The Green Space Investment Plan will be put into action through a series of projects. Progress on these projects will be monitored by the Environment Sub-Group. The Neighbourhood Committee will be asked to allocate money to these projects from funds that have been devolved to the Neighbourhod Partnership. Where possible this will be used as match funding to help raise further money from other sources. We will be looking for resident champions to drive forward these projects.
More information will be posted in the blog on the Environment Sub-Group website at:
www.stgeorgenp.org.uk/subgroups/environment
St George Green Space Disposals
At its meeting on 13 March 2012 the Neighbourhood Committee for St George agreed to retain all four green spaces that had previously been proposed for disposal as part of the Area Green Space Plan Ideas and Options. The decision was taken by Cllrs Stone, Breckels and Pearce. Cllr Hammond was absent and sent his apologies.
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