Management Plan for Firth Park - MP4-Interreg

Clean and well maintained
Sustainability
Conservation and Heritage
Grass cutting and horticultural maintenance
good standard. Herbaceous beds to front
look great, need to get established
Building was probably one of the best
examples I have seen, Light sensors, with
designed with the environment in mind, Did
not see any use of weed killer on path edges
etc bonus
Donkey hill left to nature, plans afoot to
install circular footpath linking park to area
75
Water flowing over pathway in woodland needs
attention
Action
We have included both paths on the tar
macadam programme.
We have introduced a bench standard for the
park
We will be carrying out the safety work for
woodland paths as recommended
Additional drainage works in woodland included
in this years programme
Patch of grass next to bowling pavilion looking a
bit tatty cut very short from being very long.
Grass in Nursery garden need re patching
Woodland as a bit over grown in places lots of
self seeding trees need to carry out thinning
works
Some graffiti spotted but not a major problem
Action
Grass areas outlined included in 2008 work
programme
Nursery garden grass to have netting
reinforcement and re turfing
Woodland work included in future work
programme
Plants bought for summer and winter bedding
contained peat, suggest alternative growing
media
Action
We are carrying out trials with plant supplier to
reduce the quantity of peat in growing media
Windows need cleaning in the clock tower,
curtain on slant made it looked as if no one cared