Friends Launch Date Announced (Leeds Liberal Democrats)

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Friends Launch Date Announced

October 3, 2005 1:15 PM

Cllrs David Hollingsworth and Richard Brett are supporting the plans to improve East End Park

Local Lib Dem Councillor David Hollingsworth is pleased to announce that the official launch of the Friends of East End Park will be on Tuesday 11th October at the Mencap Centre on Lonesboro Grove/ East Park Parade. The meeting which is open to the public is due to start at 7.30pm. Plans for the launch were drawn up by Cllr Hollingsworth and his ward colleagues Cllr Richard Brett and Cllr Ralph Pryke and members of the Friends of East End Park steering group.

Councillor Hollingsworth (Lib Dem, Burmantofts) said "Both my ward colleagues and I are very excited about the launch. In conjunction with the Friends steering group we have already been able to make some major progress with the park. A £75,000 budget has been agreed to make vital improvements to the park, some of which are now in place such as the "A frame" barriers. We want to keep the momentum going and for local residents to have their say. This is a great opportunity to get in involved in an exciting project that will benefit the whole community."

Notes to the Editor:

The Friends of East End Park is pioneering community group based in Richmond Hill, East Leeds. The Friends of East End Park formed with the specific aim of improving the park's lacklustre appearance.

In a Press Release issued on 17th August 2005, Lib Dem Cllrs David Hollingsworth, Richard Brett and Ralph Pryke told of a meeting between steering group members (inc the Cllrs), local residents and senior Area Parks Manager Fred Duff (Leeds City Council). The result of the meeting was an agreement by Leeds City Council to fund £75,000 worth of improvements to East End Park. Those proposed improvements include:-

Putting "A frame" barriers at each entrance to stop motor cyclists getting on to the Park.

Adding about 10 vandal proof metal park benches in sites which are still to be agreed

Adding about a dozen new litter bins

Planting 5000 daffodil bulbs along a stretch near East Park Parade

Putting a "teen zone" hut near the basketball pitch

Erecting new metal perimeter railings from Ings Crescent to Victoria Avenue.

Re - siting and improving the two football pitches.

The photograph accompanying the Press Release is of Cllr Hollingsworth and Cllr Brett beside one of the newly fitted "A frame" barriers at the entrance to the park.

The views in this Press Release are those of the Liberal Democrat Council Group, and not necessarily those of Leeds City Council, its Officers or of the Liberal Democrat Party.