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Brent River Park scoops £400,000 for improvements thanks to more than 4,000 local voters

A 'fantastic show of people power' has secured Brent River Park a whopping £400,000 for improvements.

Announcing the results of the Help a London Park scheme on Wednesday, Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: ..."Londoners have voted in their droves to decide which of their ten favourite parks will get a makeover.

"So is it incredibly exciting to reveal today the results of the ‘parks plebiscite’, and thanks to this loyal support of local people, ten parks across the capital are now set to become much more pleasant places.

"Londoners deserve a better quality of life and making a greener, more attractive city is a top priority."

Funding for the parks’ makeovers comes from efficiency savings made from the former administration’s publicity budget including the scrapping of The Londoner newspaper.

London boroughs nominated almost 100 green spaces in their areas that were in need of extra care and 47 were shortlisted by a panel of experts for Londoners to vote on. To ensure the money is used on parks across London, the parks were divided into five London sub-regions (North West, North, North East, South East and South West) with around ten parks per sub-region.

In Ealing a total of 4,648 people voted for the Brent River Park to win.

Councillor Phil Taylor, Cabinet Member for Customer and Community Services, said: “This is brilliant news. The money will have a huge impact in improving the park, as well as ensuring Ealing remains one of the leafiest London boroughs. It’s the people who voted that made this possible and I would like to say a big thank you to each of them.

“Now we can put our aspirations for Brent River Park into action and start drawing up plans to make it an even nicer place for people to enjoy.”

The grant will be used to:

• improve the animal centre at Brent Lodge Park
• improve walking routes
• undertake new planting
• install a fitness trail
• install more bins
• develop new signage

 

 

March 5, 2009