GSLP-Liberals-Manifesto-2019

Environmental Safety Group in respect
of plans previously announced for
Grand Parade. As a result, we have
abandoned our original ideas and we
have reworked those plans. We will
invest in the underground parking
facility there. We will do so in a way
that will remove all parking from the
area of Grand Parade and will take
all parking underground. The surface
area of Grand Parade will therefore be
transformed into a park which will be
an extension of the Alameda Gardens
(or Gibraltar Botanical Gardens). This
Park will provide a much needed area
for leisure and children in the area
of the South District. This new area
will be added to the legal protection
afforded to the Botanic Gardens.
ALAMEDA BOTANIC GARDENS
We will continue improving the Botanic
Gardens, providing new disabled toilet
facilities for the Open Air Theatre,
and engaging in a full resurfacing
programme over the coming four
years.
WALK THE WALL AT LINE WALL
PROMENADE
We are committed to the relocation
of the Mosque which is presently
housed in the old Parish Hall on the
wall at Line Wall Road opposite Duke
of Kent House. Once this Mosque is
relocated, we will demolish the old
Parish Hall and create a walk way and
bicycle lane which will commence by
the area of Orange Bastion / Chatham
and will continue all the length of Line
Wall Road. We believe we may be able
to link this also to the area of Saluting
Battery (La Bateria) and onwards to
Rosia Bay, around Parson’s Lodge,
onwards to Camp Bay and Little Bay.
This walk way and cycle lane will be a
magnificent addition to our city based
on the very successful ‘High Line’
concept in Manhattan. We plan to add
greenery and art installations along
the route. We hope it will also invite
people to walk and cycle into town
more than they do now as they will
be kept apart from road traffic on this
route. We will market the concept to
residents and tourists/visitors as ‘Walk
The Wall’.
NORTHERN GLACIS PARK
We will create another green area at
Glacis, on the site of the current (soon
to be moved) St Martin’s School. This
will be designed to be a green lung in
the North District for those in the area
of Laguna & Glacis.
TREE PLANTING SCHEME
We will continue to plant trees
throughout Gibraltar, and to ensure
that the legislation that we have
introduced to protect trees is strictly
enforced.
GREEN WALLS
The green wall at St Anne’s has been
a big hit with the community. We will
encourage more green walls, and will
undertake a programme of converting
appropriate walls around Gibraltar that
are not heritage walls, to green. This
will include using concrete benches
with green wall backs in different parts
of our City Centre.
Glacis Park for all
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