Belmont Recreation Ground

Haringey Council is working in partnership with Groundwork to improve the northern entrance of Belmont Recreation Ground at Hawke Park Road and to improve the playground.

Local people identified the Hawke Park Road entrance to Belmont Rec as problem for many years. It is a small cul-de-sac road which has a gate at the end of it that leads into the Park. It is not in full view and as a result is used as a place to dump rubbish and is a prime location for drug dealing in the summer.

Survey

In January 2007, 500 surveys were delivered to residents living near to Belmont Rec to find out their views on a plan to close the southern end of Hawke Park Road, between Boundary Road and the entrance to Belmont Recreation Ground. 110 people responded to the survey, giving a response rate of 22%, which is good for a survey of this kind. 94.5% respondents said that they would have no objection to the entrance being moved back to the junction of Boundary Road.

Planning application

A planning application has now been submitted to transform the entrance, creating a better welcome to the open space. This involves relocating the entrance to Boundary Road and making the cul-de-sac of Hawke Park Road part of the Recreation Ground.

There will be new gates and some of the paved areas will be grassed over. As part of the works a large number of native shrubs will be planted around the edges of the Recreation Ground to provide habitat for wildlife and add some interest and variety to the large grassed area. Proposed plans can be viewed in the attached files section below.

New playground

Haringey Council has also committed £150,000 towards a new playground for Belmont Rec. The design for the new playground had now been completed after a summer of consultation work where local people had the chance to comment on what they would like to see in their playground. The playground design can be viewed in the attached files section below. The design will now go out to tender and work will start on site in early January 2009, and the playground will be open for the spring.

The playground contract will be combined with the redesign of the northern entrance of Belmont Recreation Ground so both projects will be carried out in the same timeframe.

Further information

For further information regarding the upgrade works to Belmont Recreation Ground please email parks@haringey.gov.uk

Attached Files

Filename	Filetype	Size
Belmont Rec Consultation Doc.pdf	PDF	271K
Proposed plan for Belmont Rec.pdf	PDF	426K
belmont recreation ground playground design.pdf	PDF	385K
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