Projects: Wednesbury Greenspaces

This project aims to enhance four existing green spaces in Wednesbury to improve safety, quality, and accessibility and to provide additional activities. This will bring physical and mental health benefits and improve walking routes.

Much of the investment into Green Spaces within Sandwell has been focussed on the main Town Parks.  All of these Town-level sites have achieved the Green Flag award to highlight their quality and success.  We want to level up neighbourhood and local level green spaces that are important to residents who do not have access to borough level parks.

This project will see a host of improvements across four green Spaces with the lowest quality scores in Wednesbury:

Hydes Road Playing Fields 

• Refurbished Changing Rooms
• Car park improvements
• Improvement to football pitches
• New Bins, Benches, Picnic Benches and Signage.
• tree planting (native species) and wildflower planting to improve biodiversity

Balls Hill Open Space (on site)

• Upgraded Footway
• Improved furniture and infrastructure
• Signage
• Upgraded Children’s Play Area
• New planting scheme 

Wyntor Lane Open Space (main work completed. Community Garden coming soon)

• New Footway
• New community garden
• Improved furniture and infrastructure
• Signage & Interpretation
• New planting scheme   

Lakeside and Norbury Road Open Space (completed)

• New and resurfaced footways
• Improved furniture and infrastructure
• Signage
• New planting scheme   

Progress Update September 2024

• The main work has been completed at Lakeside and Norbury Road Open Space.
• The main work has been completed at Wyntor Lane Open Space, the community garden to follow soon.
•  Balls Hill Open Space works have started.
• Initial designs have been prepared for Hydes Road Playing Fields and have been shared with residents, users of the playing fields and partners through discussions, a drop-in event and a survey. Findings were analysed and  considered by the Wednesbury Levelling Up Partnership Board at the end of August.
• Hydes  Road is in procurement phase.