.: Manor Lodge Flower Festival

Manor Lodge Flower Festival

Sunday 3rd July 2011

At the annual Manor Lodge Flower Festival we set up a stall for the 'Name that Park' competition, inviting residents to add name suggestions written on flags to our grass numbers - each number representing a different green space. We also set up easels with photographs of the sites covered in tracing paper and asked visitors to draw their perfect park.

So what's this all about...?

Exciting new things are happening in Manor Park and this site is here to let you know what's going on.

Pennine Housing are doing streetscene and green space improvements in the area and are working with Planit landscape Architects, who have been appointed to implement these new improvements.

The overall aims are:

• Provide a high quality public realm improvement scheme, which proves to be robust yet attractive.

• Strengthen the character of the neighbourhood.

• Improve the day to day well being of the residents by creating practical design led solutions to the public realm issues.

• Create a sense of ownership of the public realm leading to enhanced community safety and well being.

• Create positive perceptions of the area both from
within and outside.

• Enhance the hierarchy of the streets.

• Attract investment.

• Supportive of the Green Flag design objectives.

In addition, Ana Ospina and Cara Flynn from Fourth Wall Creations will be working as the Artists on this project with the aim to work with groups in the community to feed ideas into the design of the public realm.

This role is a vital in strengthening the sense of place for residents through the medium of art whether it be through contemporary art, workshops or installations providing something of quality, character and identity for the communities.