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Recent wet weather and storms Babet, Ciarán and Debi resulted in a short delay to the Sustainable Urban Drainage Scheme (SuDS) works, as the ground was too wet for the heavy machinery to be safely operated onsite. With the forecast looking set to improve, we anticipate work to restart onsite in the next couple of […]
On 8 November, our Parks Team celebrated the opening of the new Woodthorpe Ravine playground with teachers and pupils from Prince Edward Primary School. It was lovely to hear that most of the pupils had already started using the equipment at weekends and after school. The headteacher and form teacher were great advocates for outdoor […]
The Bonfire Night Celebration at Manor Fields Park started in 2010 when the park was beginning to mature as a well-loved and well-used landscape, almost ten years after it had been created. Bret Nuttall from The Green Estate Community Interest Company and Craig Judson from MASKK were two of the key instigators. At the time, […]
Update on SuDS installation in Manor Fields Park. It is designed to ease pressure on Sheffield’s watercourse and sewer network and will support the creation of 148 new homes in the Harborough Rise and Manor Park Avenue areas. It will also create a ‘wetland’ environment that will provide a haven for a diverse range of plants and animals and new walking trails for park visitors to explore.
First of all, we would like to thank you for your patience as we make improvements to the park. The site set-up to deliver the wetland project (Sustainable urban Drainage Scheme or SuDS) is complete and includes a temporary office and welfare facilities. You might have noticed that the fencing covers a large area of […]
Over recent weeks, you will have noticed some activity at the park, including the arrival of a compound and fencing. As the work progresses to create the new Sustainable Urban Drainage Scheme (SuDS) in the park, we are working hard to keep any disruption and noise to a minimum, where possible. The next stage of […]