We are looking at ideas to develop Peel Park in to an amazing community space.
Little Hulton Big Local is a community lead organisation, all our work is based on-going consultation with our community.
In the summer of 2017 we commissioned a group of local residents to complete a community research project around the needs of Little Hulton.
Some of the key messages we received was the need for a Community Hub in Little Hulton, if you are a young person in Little Hulton there is no quality place to hang out and if you are a family in Little Hulton there is nowhere to go.
We believe these issues can be addressed through investing in and developing our local park.
This summer Little Hulton Big Local commissioned a second community research project this time around Peel Park in Little Hulton a place and space that matters to our community.
The park is a key asset in our community but is underused key messages we received from our community were "make sure the park feels safe" and that the lack of facilities including access to toilets and refreshments on the park create a barrier to people using the park.
To address this we are exploring an extension and refurbishment of the pavilion on the park to develop a community hub and cafe. This would increase the hours the pavilion was open providing both access to facilities and a greater presence on the park increasing a sense of security.
This would make the park feel like a safer place and encourage community use.
Another recommendation was to develop more integrated and family oriented activities on the Park.
We have made a start on this working alongside Spirit of Little Hulton to deliver a community festival on Peel Park in August 2018 where over 2000 local residents attended the festival and we want to build on this and develop an annual sustainable festival that in long term attracts commercial sponsorship.
We also worked with the an arts organisation Walk the Plank who worked with our young people in the lead up to the festival and delivered activities at the festival this brought an extra dimension to the festival creating something unique to Little Hulton.
We want to develop a programme of an activities on Peel Park that encourage greater community use, this will include the annual festival.
We have already part funded the development of a Junior Park Run Project.
We want relocate some of our youth activities to the park.
We have established an ongoing working partnership with Spirit of Little Hulton and Walk the Plank and we are currently starting to make plans for our next summer festival.
We are also working with Salford City Council, City West Housing and the RHS to develop an overarching plan for the development of the park.
To find out more please read our Community Consultation Report.
Appendixes 1 - 5 in support of the Community Consultation report:
Walk the Plank consultation activities at Spirit of Little Hulton festival August 2018:
Walk the Plank consultation activities at Youth Unity youth club December 2018:
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