Projects: Rowley Regis Parks Improvements
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Investment£2,540,199.70 consisting of £2,874,000 Towns Fund and a total of £80,199.70 match funding from Sandwell Council, Lawn Tennis Association and English Cricket Board.
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Timeline
Start: June 2022
Delivery: March 2026
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LocationBritannia Park and Haden Hill Park, Rowley Regis
The Rowley Regis Parks Improvements project will improve the infrastructure, facilities and environmental quality of Britannia Park, promoting and enabling greater usage for a variety of purposes and build a new play area at Haden Hill Park, improving the health and wellbeing of residents across Rowley Regis.
This project was previously known as the Britannia Park Greenspace Project.
The project Full Business Case was approved by Government in March 2022. Since then, the project team have undertaken a number of activities in the background to finalise the work packages to deliver this project and on-site works commenced in March 2023.
In December 2024, the project secured an additional £414,000 Towns Fund Grant, following the reduction of investment from another Rowley Regis Town Deal project. This additional funding will further enhance the improvements to Britannia Park in Rowley Regis and build a new play area at Haden Hill Park, improving the health and wellbeing of residents across Rowley Regis.
The Rowley Regis Parks Improvement project will:
- deliver a new low-carbon community building to provide changing rooms
- install drainage to sport pitches
- create 15 new allotment plots
- widen the main entrance and driveway
- improve the appearance of the two other entrance points (Ross and Mackmillan Road)
- provide a new enlarged car park (90 spaces including 12 disabled parking bays)
- construct new footpaths to provide a perimeter route for park users
- refurbish 2 Tennis Courts
- refurbish the existing MUGA
- reconstruct the skate park
- replace all play and fitness equipment
- remove trees that are deemed at risk
- plant shrubs and new trees
- plant a new Beech Tree Maze
- replace the existing steel play area at Haden Hill Park
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Project Deliverables: |
Status: |
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20 Temporary Full-Time jobs supported during project implementation |
Overachieved (41 jobs supported) |
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0.5km new pedestrian paths within the park |
Completed Summer 2023 |
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15 New Allotment Plots |
Completed August 2024 |
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New Play Area |
Completed August 2024 |
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Newly refurbished Tennis Courts (2) |
Completed October 2024 |
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New building to accommodate changing rooms |
Completed January 2025 |
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Improved car park accommodating 78 parking spaces |
Completed January 2025 |
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Upgrade existing MUGA |
Due to complete March 2025 |
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Improved Skate Park |
Due to complete Summer 2025 |
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New beech tree maze |
Due to complete March 2026 |
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New toddler play area |
Due to complete March 2026 |
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New Play area at Haden Hill Park |
Due to complete March 2026 |
October 2024 - The Tennis Court refurbishment is now complete.
August 2024 - The Mayor of Sandwell, Councillor Syeda Khatun, officially opened the play area on Tuesday 13 August. Children can now use the play area which includes a large climbing frame with a slide, a zipline, a seesaw, swings and a wheelchair carousel.
August 2024 - 15 new allotment plots have been installed at Britannia Park, 9 of which are raised beds. (Leader of Sandwell Council, Councillor Kerrie Carmichael next to the raised allotment beds).
