The park will be closed for renovation after the Paralympic Games, before reopening in stages from 2013 as the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The Olympic Park Legacy Company has appointed Mark Camley as director of park operations.
In his new role, Mark will be responsible for the running of around 250 acres of open space on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park including parklands, waterways and public spaces. Continue reading
This Valentine’s Day, GreenSpace is delighted to launch the brand new Love Parks Week website.
Just like a quality park, our new site offers an attractive, stimulating environment for you to take part in a range of activities. We’ll be rolling out many new features over the coming weeks, so please be sure to make a return visit and keep exploring.
The query:“Here in Haworth, West Yorkshire we have a long history of Brass Band Concerts being performed on a beautiful Edwardian Bandstand. Indeed there has been, and still is a Haworth Band since the mid 1800′s.
Our Bandstand was removed around 1974 as the structure was deemed as unsafe. At the request of local villagers the Friends of the Park are busy trying to raise funds to build a replacement.
The Friends Group and bowlers in our local park are having a new pavilion. We would like to install a green roof. Can you give us any guidance about where to find information on the types of roof and reputable suppliers?
Last week the parks sector lost one of its most distinguished proponents.
David Brayshay battled with cancer for several months, but sadly passed away peacefully, in the company of his family, during the early hours of Thursday 5 January.
GreenSpace staff would like to extend our deepest condolences to his family.
One of the benefits of belonging to GreenSpace’s Community Network is the pool of people whose resources and experience we can tap into.
We receive many questions from community group members that we put to the network, and are provided with quality responses. We’ll start putting a selection of these on the blog so more people can make use of the feedback. Here’s one to start you off…
Delegates at November’s Prescribing Green Space conference will have noticed something unusual for a GreenSpace event… a film crew monitoring the action!
We’ve produced our first ever video to showcase the importance of parks to the nation’s health, and to let people know a bit more about what we do.
