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Almost £14m funding approved for historic parks Sydney Gardens in Bath is one of six UK public parks and gardens to be rejuvenated with £13.8million National Lottery funding. In need of urgent repairs, the Grade II registered Sydney Gardens one of the UK’s only surviving Georgian Pleasure Gardens and local park of novelist Jane Austen will have a new lease of life thanks to an investment of £2,742,300 National Lottery money. They were designed for entertainment and wellbeing in the late 18th century and had a keen visitor in Jane Austen. Just before she moved within view of them in 1801, she wrote: “It would be very pleasant to be near Sydney Gardens! We might go to the Labyrinth every day.” Alongside a jaunt through the labyrinth, a visit to a pleasure garden was a time to mix and socialise with minimal supervision, and maybe even meet a potential partner.
Since Jane Austen’s day the park has fallen into decline. But soon, thanks to the grant awarded jointly by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund, today’s visitors will be able to enjoy a rejuvenated 21st-century pleasure gardens.
money totalling £13.8million, reinvigorating them as vital community spaces by restoring historic features and planting; creating new facilities including play areas, cafes and toilets; and improving habitats for wildlife.
They will be able to make use of a new café, play areas for all ages, a changing places facility (accessible changing rooms and toilets) and community spaces, alongside the soon to be restored Grade II listed Loggia, Minerva’s Temple, Edwardian toilets and grade II* listed canal footbridges.
The Heritage Lottery Fund’s Chief Executive Ros Kerslake said, on behalf of the Heritage Lottery Fund and Big Lottery Fund: “The health and wellbeing benefits of local green spaces were well known in Jane Austen’s time and remain true today.
New areas of garden with wild flowers and planting for pollinating insects will be introduced and areas of the park currently closed to the public will be reopened. Four tennis courts will be refurbished and a new labyrinth-in-grass will be included for modern day Jane Austens. Sydney Gardens is one of six parks receiving National Lottery
“They are home to some of the country’s most cherished heritage and provide fantastic opportunities for enterprise and community activities. Over £950million of National Lottery money has been invested in regenerating public parks and urban green spaces so far and they remain a priority into the future.” HLF
Toro’s new greens mower provides quieter cutting Toro’s new hydraulics-free Greensmaster eTriFlex with Lithium-ion battery cuts noise by 50 percent for quiet, leak-free, clean cutting was launched in the UK by Reesink Turfcare at BTME 2019. The eTriFlex is a classic example of Toro responding to
customer demand by creating a machine which significantl reduces noise. Alongside the Lithium-ion battery is a proven Kawasaki twin cylinder 14hp air-cooled engine with a reduced speed of 2400rpm, shrouded in venting. It’s this design that
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South Cliff Gardens in Scarborough’s South Bay £4.66m Castle Park in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire £1.94m Sydney Gardens in Bath £2.74m
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Fairhaven Lake and Gardens on the Fylde coast, Lancashire £1.47m Ellington Park in Ramsgate, Kent £1.64m Stevens Park in Dudley £1.4m
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ensures perceived bystander noise level is reduced by half. Jeff Anguige, national sales manager, at Reesink, says: “The eTriFlex is a mower you could talk about all day. It’s quiet, and with no hydraulics it delivers clean and leakfree cutting. It ticks the green credentials box with its allelectric components and brings an estimated 22 percent saving in fuel, in comparison to say the Greensmaster 3320, thanks to its efficient power supply.” The company is calling it the most advanced riding greensmower ever-bringing a new standard in mowing greens. Plus, the cut is consistent from the firs to the last green as it’s no longer dependent on changing oil temperatures. Reesink Turfcare
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