Projects: Britannia Park Greenspace Improvements
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Investment£2,540,199.70 consisting of £2,460,000 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: December 2025
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LocationBritannia Park, Rowley Regis
The Britannia Park Greenspace Improvements project will improve the infrastructure, facilities and environmental quality of Britannia Park, promoting and enabling greater usage for a variety of purposes, and to improve the health and wellbeing of residents across Rowley Regis.
The project will develop a new low-carbon community building to provide changing rooms, create new allotment plots, widen the main entrance and driveway to make access safer for pedestrians and drivers, provide an enlarged car park, construct new footpaths to provide a perimeter route for park users, reconstruct the skate park, replace all play and fitness equipment to meet modern day play and fitness needs and plant new trees, in part as replacement (2:1) for trees that need removing.
The project Full Business Case was approved by Government in March 2022. The project team have since 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.
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Project Deliverables: |
Status: |
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21 Temporary Full-Time jobs supported during project implementation |
Achieved |
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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 Court |
Completed October 2024 |
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New building to accommodate changing rooms |
Building works Commenced Summer 2024 |
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Improved car park accommodating 65 parking spaces |
Due to Complete March 2025 |
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Improved Skate Park |
Due to Complete Summer 2025 |
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0.5km new pedestrian paths within the park |
Due to Complete Summer 2025 |
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).
