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07/03/10
Plymouth Parks Forum
The FDP are liaising with many other Friends groups with a view to set up a Plymouth Parks Forum. Although further discussions are required to formalise its purpose, a sharing of resources and knowledge will almost certainly be one of its roles. The initial Plymouth Parks Forum meeting will be held sometime in October 2010 and will be hosted by the FDP in the new Pavilion and will include a guided tour of Devonport Park. Further details will be forthcoming, however a page for the forum has been set up on the FDP website, prior to a formal website being created. Click here to view...
Heritage Art
07/03/10 Consultations with the FDP committee have occured with the artist, Carol Waller and the sculptures Mike Disley, both of whom are creating works of art for the Lottery trail. Carol Waller will be created lit glass art panels to be hung on the exterior of the new Pavilion and Mike Disleywill be creating (with the help of some of the FDP) carved stone benches for the park. Metal discs featuring historic scenes and wildlife of the park are also being created for the trail
- judging to be held on the 15th July 2010!
The volunteer gardeners are working extremely hard to plant beautiful beds in our park and have entered the memorial garden into this years Plymouth In Bloom competition.
Plant Theft Alert!!
Please be vigilant - we have a thief in the park! Someone is stealing plants from the beds our hard-working volunteer gardeners have been working on - including the Memorial Garden!
If you see anyone digging up plants in the park and are suspicious, or if you know the culprit, please contact either Mike Gallagher via email or tel on 01752 213308 or contact the our Neigbhourhood Police Team, who are aware of the thefts, on 01752 568254.
Thank you.
"In conclusion we can see some positive, significant changes in people’s activity and usage within Devonport Park from 2007 up until 2010. In summary, in 2010 it seems that firstly significantly more people are visiting Devonport Park and secondly some of these new visitors are travelling from further afield to enjoy the park than they were in both 2007 and 2009.
The results also show that both young people and older people are increasingly visiting Devonport Park in 2010 whereas both groups were particularly absent in 2007 and young people in 2009. The evidence also suggests that people’s satisfaction with the park has achieved sustained growth since 2007. This means that people spend longer within the park and are enjoying more diverse activities within it in 2010 compared with both 2007 and 2009.
It is highly likely that these positive improvements in use and satisfaction are due to the capital and revenue work being undertaken with the funding from the Heritage/BIG Lottery Funds and the DRC Partnership. The creation of the new children’s play area, the refurbishment of the park tennis courts and the improvements to the Memorial and Rose Gardens are considered to be particularly important in these changes of broadening the catchment area and increasing/diversifying usage. It is also considered that the work of the Friends and volunteers both in holding events, thus increasing the feeling of supervision and safety for park users in the absence of a Park Warden, and in staffing the weekly volunteer gardening sessions, that have improved maintenance and planting within the park, has been fundamentally important to the increased satisfaction rating among park users. "