Covanburn Projects
Stanrigg Park, Plains
Client
CSGN (Central Scotland Green Network Trust)
Value
£230,000
Location
North Lanarkshire
Requirements
The newly named Stanrig Park is an area of land between Jarvie Avenue and Beverley Park where the local community group Plains Community Futures secured funding from WREN and North Lanarkshire Council’s local development fund for the new facility.
The new park has been named in honour of 19 men and boys who were killed in a disaster at a nearby mine a century ago. Plains Community Group held public meetings and online polls to ask people what they would like to see in the newly created park.
Approach
The park project, managed by the Central Scotland Green Network Trust, has transformed a former sports pitch and includes a stone seating area, new areas of woodland and wetland habitat, greatly improved paths and a unique three metre high climbing boulder.
The works comprised the following main elements:
Result
As a result of all the hard work from Plains Community Futures and the local community input, local people of all ages can now enjoy the newly created park.
