Work is due to start in January 2011 to restore the Wallsend Parks, after the Heritage Lottery Fund confirmed it has awarded a grant of 2.45 million pounds towards the cost of the works with the remainder being provided by North Tyneside Council.
The restoration plans form part of the overall Wallsend Town centre regeneration scheme and will include restoring the lake and bandstand in the Wallsend Park grounds as well as providing an onside presence for Northumbria police.
The overall project will also include restoring the vinery wall and neglected fernery in and around the Richardson Dees Park as well as the nearby Civic hall grounds.
Further grants are being applied for to help create future community planting schemes & art projects.
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Arthur Renwick
January 22, 2012 at 4:11 pm (UTC 0) Link to this comment
Over the last fifty years i have see the lake at the park draind and cleaned several times only to silt up again and again and again you must solve the problem of the silt or it will just happen again with the lake silting up you dont get any fish or frogs newts anything.The malards that are there are just living of people feeding them there is no life in the water