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Design Options 1 and 2 (side-by-side view below)

Option 1

Option 1 proposes sweeping pathways that go around the northern part of the park, connecting facilities within the park and leaving a large, flexible central grass area that allows for 11-a-side football and events in the park, which help to meet park maintenance costs. It includes a perimeter 'activity route' with distance markers for walking, jogging, cycling.

This option introduces wild planting and different ground heights to encourage people to take these sweeping paths, rather than walk directly over the grass. Overall, this option provides a greater amount of green space and less hard surfaced pathways but offers less direct routes.

The community hub is located in the centre of the park and co-located with a new formal play area, enabling more green space to be introduced in the southern part of the park and improving the balance and connection between north and south. New entrances are proposed from the east and south.

Option 2 

Option 2 proposes straighter, more direct pathways that cut across the northern part of the park and enable people to move from one entrance to the other quickly, responding to regularly used cut-throughs. It includes a perimeter 'activity route' with distance markers for walking, jogging, cycling. 

This option creates smaller pockets of green space in the northern part of the park, which can be used for kickabout ball games and smaller gatherings, but not 11-a-side football which may limit events in the park that help to meet park maintenance costs. Overall, this option provides a greater amount of hard surfaced pathways and less green space.

The community hub is located in the southern part of the park and co-located with a new formal play area, maintaining a concentration of sports, play and community activities in the southern part of the park with less greening. New entrances are proposed from the east and south.

Common, different and interchangeable elements

Some design elements are common to both Design Options 1 and 2. For example, the location of sports spaces and facilities alongside Park View Road south, sustainable drainage alongside Ashley Road north, and the outdoor gym de-clustered and partially screened with planting. 

Whilst other elements are different. For example, the curved or direct arrangement of pathways. And some are interchangeable. For example, the number and location of play spaces and facilities, and location relative to other elements, and number and location of entrances (four new entrances are proposed) . 

Option 1: Centralised Community Hub Key design moves: 1. Blending eastern boundary/Ashley Rd ‘school street’, along the north eastern edge of the park 2. Relocated community hub, positioned to the centre of the park (in north field) 3. Relocated community garden, positioned to the centre of the park, adjacent to the relocated hub 4. 2 x New play areas – one next to the community hub, the other to the north east corner 5. Creating flexible open field (allowing for 11-a-side football) 6. Replacing the diagonal footpath that bisects the north part of the park with ‘circular’ pathway around the park 7. Upgraded and reconfigured outdoor gym, in the northern part of the park 8. Introducing sustainable drainage and rain gardens along eastern edge of north field 9. New entrance from the Ashley Road Depot Site (residential development), to the north of the park 10. Perimeter activity cycling/running/walking route, around the park 11. 1 x new canopy outside community space, in the southern part of the park 12. Retaining Artificial Grass Pitch as is, along the western edge of the south part of the park 13. Relocating tennis courts to western edge of the south end of the park 14. Introducing new Multi Use Games Area (basketball/netball/volleyball) next to the relocated tennis courts 15. Removing the BMX track and retaining ‘the mound’ in the south of the park 16. 3 new entrances: Berol and Ashley links and The Hale, all in the south of the park

Option 2: Southern Community Hub Key design moves: 1. Blending eastern boundary/Ashley Road ‘school street’, along the north eastern edge of the park 2. 1 x New play area, in the northern part of the park 3. Retaining diagonal pathway and introducing 2 new ‘desire lines’ from Holcombe Road to Harris Academy and from Park View Road towards Tottenham Marshes 4. Upgraded and reconfigured outdoor gym, in the northern part of the park 5. Introducing sustainable drainage and rain gardens along eastern edge of the park 6. New entrance from the Ashley Road Depot site residential development, to the north of the park 7. Perimeter activity cycling/running/walking route all the way around the park 8. Refurbished/extended community hub in existing location, in the southern end of the park 9. Reconfigured Community Garden, in the southern end of the park 10. 1 x New play area close to the community hub, in the southern end of the park 11. 1 x new canopy outside community space 12. Retaining Artificial Grass Pitch as is in the southern end of the park 13. Relocating tennis courts to western edge of the southern section of the park 14. Introducing new Multi Use Games Area (basketball/netball/volleyball) 15. Removing BMX track and ‘the mound’

Side-by-side view: Download the two early design options (High Resolution)

Quick View Option 1 & 2.pdf
Quick View Option 1 & 2.pdf
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