Plans lodged for £250k Clooney park

PLANS for a new community-backed £250k playpark in the heart of the Clooney estate have further progressed with the lodgement of an application for permission to build with the local planning office.

Before Christmas the Sentinel reported a draft proposal for the playpark had received 100 per cent approval from 36 residents who attended a feedback session organised by Groundwork (NI) and the local residents’ association.

Now the plans have taken another step forward with an application for the “redevelopment of existing play area, inclusive of paths, furniture, fencing and lighting” having been received by the planners.

Hide Ad
Hide Ad

Derry City Council’s Environmental Services Committee were in December updated on the ambitious plans that will see the existing play park utterly transformed with proposals for a new tree-lined amenity with playground, water/art feature and pergola at the Lapwing Way site.

The new park will be surrounded by trees and will include a feature railing, seating, a central water/lighting or stainless steel art feature, a pergola, a wet pour play surface for young children and a modern play park with swings, a slide, a balancing beam, reflective steel domes, a play dish spinner, a stroking stone animal and a roundabout featuring a little Big Ben.

Adele Dunne - of the Clooney Residents Association - told the Sentinel then that the people in the area deserved replacement facilities at Clooney Green, where an existing play park has become increasingly run down over recent years.

She said that pending a successful planning application and funding being secured people could look forward to having a new park in place by early 2012.