We’re joining a new national initiative which helps to fundraise for parks and green spaces.
The campaign, called ‘What’s that worth to you?’, forms part of the Future Park Accelerator project which the Council, along with ten other authorities, joined in 2019.
In Plymouth, the project will focus on creating more of the ever-popular wildflower meadows that have been so widely praised this year.
Plymouth’s Green Minds project is giving away grants to businesses who invest in nature.
The Green Minds project, which will help to re-wild urban areas and encourage people from across the city to enjoy the health benefits from blue and green space, launches this year thanks to €4million funding grant from the European Regional Development Fund under their Urban Innovation Actions Programme.
All Council-owned play parks will be opening again from tomorrow, Saturday 4 July. Ball courts and outdoor gyms will also be back in use.
We can't wait to see kids using the park again and we're sure that they'll be chomping at the bit to get back on the slides and swings as well.
This year, we are going to change the way that we cut grass across the city.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, we were planning to trial leaving a few verges and boundaries in certain areas of the city to grow wilder.
The idea was that we’d monitor the positive impacts that t