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Riverside park to get a £50,000 makeover
A RURAL gem near the centre of Elland will be transformed with more than £50,000 of grant aid.
Elland Bridge Riverside Park has won the backing of the Community Spaces Big Lottery Fund.
It has given more than 43,000, which has been boosted by small grants from organisations including NHS Calderdale.
The work will fund play equipment, picnic areas, mosaic artworks, wildflower meadows, planting schemes and an outdoor classroom.
It is the culmination of proposals first put forward in 2006 by the Elland District Partnership, Calderdale Council and NHS Calderdale, Elland Rotary and volunteers who wanted to bring the park back into greater community use.
Last year volunteers planted hundreds of wild flowers and daffodil bulbs and cleared half a ton of litter.
Halifax Sub Aqua Club also cleaned up the River Calder.
Elland District Partnership chairman Joe Braithwaite said: "The volunteer work has proved people really do care about improving their environment. Over the coming year, volunteers will be hard at work in the park transforming it into a greener, safer and cleaner space."
This week Calderdale Parks department started laying hedging and a launch event is planned in July with children's entertinament.
To date, the town's market has been moved to the more central Southgate Precinct, the James Street play area has been refurbished and the town now has improved floral decorations.
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