Its good news for Nutsford Vale! A £314,000 Forestry Commission grant has been awarded over two years to the site. Red Rose Forrest gained Capital Funding from the NWDA Newlands 2 programme; £118,000 is earmarked to be spent this year, and £196,000 next year. The money will secure the site from vehicle access, create defined paths across the site and allow boundary treatments at entrances across the site. Local council officials form the ward support team have put forward a long term maintenance plan for the site to compliment the funding.
Red Rose Forest will work in consultation with local residents on a detailed pattern of spending on environmental improvements that will be similar to work completed in Moston Vale and Clayton vale in Manchester.
This has been achieved over 10 years by the Local MP Sir Gerald Kaufman and local Councilors , including Cllr Simon Ashley working together with local residents. When this is complete the work of Nutsford Vale group will continue in the future as well for the northern half of the site, to give it similar treatment. We trust that the form of working we have established so far with funders and council officials would continue into the future.
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Red Rose Forrest Hosted a space shaper session at Gorton Mount Education Village to discuss the way in which funding should be spent on the NV site. It highlighted the importance of ongoing maintenance and good design that embraces this. It was also an opportunity to find out how people feel about the site and how they use it – most importantly what would make them use it more. and what changes they would like to see.
The Spaceshaper event is a CABE endorsed tool for bringing together a group a stakeholders (representing as many users and members of the local community groups as possible as well as (limited) officials working in the area) to talk about and share ideas about a site. It is not usually used to inform design plans but a forum in which people share and listen to other people ideas and aspirations. They are very interesting and very useful from a both a project planning and participants point of view.
http://www.cabe.org.uk/public-space/spaceshaper
