Management Plan for Firth Park - MP4-Interreg

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periods. This system has been very successful in reducing damage and anti social behaviour within the park and we are hoping to extend the system to cover the full park in future years The Gardeners based within the park all wear official council uniforms of Green with the parks and countryside logo on sweatshirts all officers have name and identify cards. The caretakers wear black trousers and blue shirts, with the First Start and Parks and Countryside logo. All staff are issued with promotional cards giving telephone details of service numbers should a member of the public contact them when they are out on site. The care takers are issued with short wave radios so that they can be contacted at all times. The gardener and supervisors have mobile telephones so that they can be contacted at all times. The bowling pavilion has an external telephone and the First Start centre has telephone and public Internet access. 5.5.6 Vehicle Movement within the Park Public Vehicle access in to the park is not allowed and all vehicle gates are locked and secured. Council maintenance vehicles are operated in the park subject to a code of practise which will be available as an appendix to this plan. In the case of events designated areas are determined and marked out together with access routes. Full risk assessments for events are carried out and meetings arranged with organisers prior to the event. 5.5.7 Health and Safety Policies It is the City Councils and Parks and Countryside services duty to provide and maintain a working environment which is so far as is reasonably practicable, safe, without risk to health and adequate as regards facilities for the welfare of all its employees and visitors to the park. All staff and seasonal gardeners are given a full induction training, which outlines council policies and procedures. Each employee is given a staff development plan, which is assessed each year and forms the basis of future training needs. The service maintains training and skills records for each employee, which is used as part of the employee appraisal process. All staff are give corporate training in Child Protection, Equality, Valuing diversity and Customer care. In order to comply with the control of vibration at work regulations 2005 Staff are monitored for HAV and all equipment is tested and tagged which gives the vibration exposure times and staff have to complete a weekly sheet which outlines the time they have spent on using machinery. The park also complies with the control of Asbestos at Work regulations 2002 regulation 4 and a register is kept by the facility manager who records all staff carrying out repairs to buildings and infrastructure within the park. The park also complies with the Pesticide regulations in respect of the use and application of chemicals. Only registered and certificated staff are allowed to apply chemicals, pesticides, and insecticides if they have PA1 and PA6 qualifications. No chemicals are store within the park. 46
Caretakers and Gardens have been given training in relation to the working from height regulations 2005 and all task are subject to a detailed method statements and operating procedures. Staff are given training on the use of grass cutting machinery and this is topped up as machinery types are replaced. All gardeners, Supervisors and caretakers have to be Criminal bureau checked to ensure that they are able to work close to children Safety at events is controlled by the Parks and Countryside Events officers who check the suitability of the event and ensure that the applicant has the necessary liability insurance cover and full risk assessments are in place before an event is given the go ahead 5.5.8 Control of Dogs Dogs under control are permitted in to the park and the area is covered by the Dog Fouling legislation. The city council Dog Wardens visit the park periodically to deal with persistent offenders, enforcement and issuing fixed penalty notices. There is a number of dog waste bins in the park situated on main pedestrian routes. These are emptied weekly through out the year by Environmental services as the waste is classed as clinical Waste. A5.6 TO MANAGE THE SITE THROUGH SUSTAINABLE POLICIES AIM 5.6.1 To ensure a high quality site through sustainable policies & Practices. One of the parks and Countryside Service plan targets for 2008/09 is to reduce the environmental impact and become more environmentally friendly in the way that we work. This initiative is far reaching and aims to question and review how we are carrying out the management and maintenance of our service and look at ways to reduce the environmental foot print and make our actions more sustainable. 5.6.2 Pesticides We have reduced the number and quantities of pesticide used across the city and in the case of Firth Heritage Park have reduced chemical application to the treatments of hard surfaces and path edges along key paths and the Hucklow Road car Park. We use chemicals on the fine turf bowling green within the park to control Fusarium and moss. 5.6.3 Horticulture We have reduced the amount of peat in bedding and have started to use recycled compost for moisture retention when we change the bedding displays 5.6.4 Fertilisers We have changed the type of fertiliser we us on the bowling green and have introduced natural compounds which are more environmentally and easily broken down avoiding contamination of water courses 47
Page 1 and 2: Firth Heritage Park Sheffield Green
Page 3 and 4: A3. POLICY CONTEXT A3.1 SITE CATEGO
Page 5 and 6: PART C. - APPENDICES SITE RELATED C
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Page 9 and 10: park users to see how they would li
Page 11 and 12: Ownership and contact details The p
Page 13 and 14: known as Donkey Hill. The ground is
Page 15 and 16: A 2.6 HISTORY & DEVELOPMENT Fig 8 T
Page 17 and 18: connection through the area to and
Page 19 and 20: • Footpaths: there are two additi
Page 21 and 22: 2.6.5 1940s: ‘A lovely safe place
Page 23 and 24: In 2000 the Friends of Firth Park w
Page 25 and 26: A2.8.0. LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSM
Page 27 and 28: 2.9.7 Public Telephones - Public te
Page 29 and 30: 2.9.18 Firth Park Bye Laws The park
Page 31 and 32: has great significance for all who
Page 33 and 34: Communication between all these gro
Page 35 and 36: A3.7 BYELAWS Firth Heritage Park is
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Page 39 and 40: All green waste is removed from the
Page 41 and 42: Firth Heritage Park is featured alo
Page 43 and 44: A5.5 ENSURE A HEALTHY, SAFE AND SEC
Page 45: Hinde Common Wood is heavily used b
Page 49 and 50: Fig 23 Boiler Technology First Star
Page 51 and 52: Fig 25 First Park Signage at the Cl
Page 53 and 54: A7. MAINTENANCE Firth Heritage Park
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Page 57 and 58: INCOME The partner organisations th
Page 59 and 60: . 11.1 Top of the Park First Start
Page 61 and 62: 11.3 The Clock Tower and Hinde Comm
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Page 65 and 66: The improvement s to this area reta
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Page 69 and 70: • It is SCC policy not to buy or
Page 71 and 72: Firth Heritage Park Sheffield City
Page 73 and 74: Conservation of Heritage and Nature
Page 75 and 76: Clean and well maintained Sustainab
Page 77 and 78: B3. MANAGEMENT ACTION PLAN CRITERIA
Page 79 and 80: Topic Task 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10
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Page 85 and 86: CRITERIA 8 - MANAGEMENT Task Task 2
Page 87 and 88: ) Maintenance Programme The followi
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