Council’s green scheme has developed numerous sites across the city
Residents join in the planting-up of Drypool’s new pocket park in Hull(Image: Hull City Council)
A planting event demonstrating community ownership of Hull City Council’s pocket park scheme has taken place in Drypool. The community of Holyrood Villas, in Field Street, came together to bed in new flowers in recently-installed planters.
The site was earmarked during round three of the council’s flagship scheme and transformed from a neglected area into one of community pride. Round four of applications for those wishing to nominate more pocket park spaces in Hull remains open until Wednesday, May 27.
To date, the scheme has developed numerous sites across the city, improving unloved, neglected or derelict areas into new green space to benefit the physical and mental wellbeing of local people. Pocket parks also provide good-quality green space for social interaction in a sustainable and community-led manner and are part of the council’s wider plan to make Hull a greener, cleaner and safer place to live.
The local community is at the forefront of the programme, with residents now able to propose further locations for pocket parks in their area by contacting their local ward councillor or neighbourhood co-ordinator . The proposed sites are typically no larger than 0.4 hectares and are small green areas on council-owned land.
The deadline for completed applications for the next wave of pocket parks is noon on May 27.
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