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Home: Community: Parks & Open Spaces
Major new developments in parks and open spaces
Helen Heaton - May 2006
helen.heaton@kirklees.gov.uk
Spen Skate Park, Bradford Road, Cleckheaton
March saw the opening of a fantastic skate park in Cleckheaton. Part-funded by the Council and Living Spaces, this £130,000 skate park has proved to be
a great success with young people from across North Kirklees. Skaters from Cleckheaton have been involved right from the start of the project and have worked
closely with the council to help the skate park grow from nothing but a dream into the wonderful facility which it has become. The skate park is open throughout
daylight hours and is free and can be found behind Spenborough Swimming Pool on Bradford Road in Cleckheaton, next to the Princess Mary Athletics Stadium.
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Athletics training track, Leeds Road, Huddersfield
Exciting developments are happening next to the Sports Barn on Leeds Road with a brand new athletics training track under construction. Costing over £
300,000 the replacement 6 lane training track will complement the existing indoor football centre and playing fields complex which are used by clubs and teams
from across Kirklees. It is expected that the track will be open for business in late summer 2006, so there's plenty of time to get your running shoes ready!
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Play Areas in Kirklees
Culture and Leisure Services are committed to providing play facilities for all. There is a rolling programme for the upgrading of children's play equipment and
this amounts to approximately 15 sites per year.
Recently completed schemes include Jaggar Lane at Honley, Roman Close at Mount and new equipment is planned for Two Furrows at Golcar, Priory Place at Bradley and
Carr house Park at Dewsbury.
Ball Walls are increasing in popularity with young people and provide a metal meshed goal area for playing football or just kicking a ball about. There are ball walls at
Beaumont Park, Huddersfield and Nibshaw Recreation Ground, Gomersal and new ball walls are also proposed to be installed in Outlane, Goldington and Hayfield
recreation grounds in Lindley.
Youth Shelters are also extremely popular with older children and give young people a place to socialise within parks and recreation grounds with limited
protection from the weather.
Youth shelters have recently been installed at Lepton, Moorend and Firthcliffe Recreation grounds and Princess Mary Playing Fields.
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Greenhead Park - new development
The park is currently the focus of an application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for a full restoration of the whole park. During 2006 all the work needed
for a Stage 2 application to the Heritage Lottery Fund was carried out. This took the form of a large pile of detailed designs, surveys, and management plans,
which we hope will help see the park return to its former glory. This application will be submitted in March 2007, with a decision to be made early in June 2007. If successful this will mean that there is over £3 million available to spend on restoring the park and breathing new life into this valuable civic amenity.
There are over 30 elements to the overall restoration project, including:
- Reinstating a large ornamental lake.
- Replacing the entrance gates and railings around the park.
- Community facilities in a revamped park cafe.
- Restoration and repairs to the conservatory, bandstand, statues and drinking fountains around the park.
- With lots of new trees and new planting areas.
The hope is that we will be in a position to start the actual improvements in the park towards the end of 2007, with it taking 2 1/2 years to carry out all
of the work that is needed. As well as the physical improvement work, there will be a greater variety of events and activities in the park following its
restoration to encourage more people to visit the park, than the estimated 1/4 million who visit it each year at the moment.
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