A raft of improvements for Marje Kelly Park in Gorse Hill is about to get under way after local people gave their views on what they wanted to see.
Trafford Council is spending £50,000 levied from housing developers on upgrading the popular green space.
A developer building 300 new homes on the nearby former Itron factory site, also known as Novus, signed a ‘Section 106 agreement’ under the Town and Country Planning Act 1990, providing the funds to improve Marje Kelly Park, bordered by Cranford Avenue and Gorse Lane.
Now contractor Landscape Engineering Ltd has been appointed to carry out the work includes more steel bow-top railings to create a dog-free play area with new benches and tabletops for families and better paths and landscaping around them,an upgraded play equipment for the playground and new goals, basketball and cricket facilities and resurfaced paths, refurbished benches and the cutting back of unkempt vegetation.
Work starts this month and will be completed during the spring after over 200 local people had their say on their hopes and priorities for the space.
The park was re-named after dedicated local volunteer Marje Kelly in 2018. Marje is known for her community work such as litter picking and improving local parks.
