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Turkish Delight UP at Leamore Park! Leamore Park in Blakenall will soon be receiving two rare Turkish hazel trees from the City of Wolverhampton College's entry in this year's BBC Gardeners' World Live exhibition that was held at the NEC. Following the Gardeners World show the garden was dismantled and the two trees worth £500 required new homes; so due to the imagination of the staff of the Black Country Consortium, BCC, the trees are now being recycled to the newly refurbished Leamore Park. The trees will be planted in the Educational Garden in the wildlife area. The garden is designed as an outdoor environmental area for school use where the pupils can come and learn about the variety of wildlife that is found in an urban park. The 25ft tall trees are being planted by the contractors who did the development work on the park, Jack Moodys based at the Holly Bush Garden Centre. Chair of the Friends of Leamore Park and New Deal Board member, Ray Walters said; "These trees will be a very welcome addition to our newly refurbished park". Sarah Middleton, Chief Executive of the BCC, said: "I am delighted that the trees have found a good home and represent the beginning of environmental transformation across the Black Country as an Urban Park. This has been one of the first opportunities to demonstrate the Urban Park partnership at work at a local level." Ends..... Andy Bradley; Communications Manager on 01922 712858 / m: 07950 705413 bradleya@walsall.gov.uk or Sally Gamston; Communications Assistant on 01922 712858 / m: 07843 346119 gamstons@walsall.gov.uk For more information about New Deal area Environmental initiatives, please contact Julia Morris on 01922 711228. Editors notes: The City of Wolverhampton College's entry in the BBC Gardeners' World Live exhibition that was held at the NEC was created by a team of 40 horticultural students from The Cedars, the college's horticultural centre, was called Around and About, and was supported by a large grant from the Black Country Consortium (BCC). The garden was based on an urban traffic island; the garden portrays a practical and sustainable solution to urban planting. It shows off a new wave naturalistic planting style, with plants specifically chosen for their suitability to the site, so reducing the need for intensive maintenance, and creating habitats for wildlife. Walsall's New Deal for Communities is a regeneration initiative working in the areas of Blakenall, Bloxwich and Leamore. The initiative received a £52 million Government grant from the Department for Communities and Local Government (formerly the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister) to be spent on sustainable regeneration spread over a ten year period that commenced 2001. A Million People: Black Country as Urban Park The Black Country has developed an ambitious 30-year vision for its future. A key component of this is the development of the Black Country as an Urban Park - environmental transformation on a massive scale, to generate economic growth and attract people to choose to live, work and invest. The communities and young people of the Black Country have been invited by the Big Lottery Fund to bid for a single Lottery grant as part of a national competition to be decided by public vote on ITV. The Black Country Bid is one of only 6 other projects nationally to have been short-listed for a single grant of up to £50 million from the Big Lottery Fund Living Landmarks People's Millions programme The 'A Million People: Black Country as an Urban Park' is the only successful submission from the West Midlands, giving our project regional significance. The Black Country Consortium is acting as lead applicant for a joint bid on behalf of the four Black Country Authorities and Black Country Wildlife Trust. The active involvement of local communities and of children and young people in particular will be the distinguishing feature of the bid. This project will be influenced and represented by the generation who will be the future leaders of the Black Country. To find out more about how you can support the bid and help transform the Black Country, visit www.blackcountryUP.co.uk or contact Angie Took, Strategic Communications Director on 01384 471124. |
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