Moormead Park is an important part of St Margarets, but hasn’t been well maintained for years. Now the Richmond Council has set aside a budget to help improve the park. Additionally a new group has formed, the Moormead Park Group, made up of local residents and representatives of the cricketers, footballers, St Margarets’ Fair Committee and local businesses. They have circulated paper questionnaire at the St Margarets Autumn Fair and door to door with local residents.
Some of the ideas they are seeking input on are:
- upgrading the playground and adding more equipment for older kids (£60k already set aside by the Council for 2006)
- informal jogging track
- a quiet area
- corner/shelter for teens
- a ball court
- plant bulbs and meadow areas
- caf{e’} or nursery in the pavilion
- level and reseed the pitches (£20k already set aside for this year by he Council)
They are also seeking ways to fund some of this development.
Right now they have an online questionnaire on the Richmond Council Website. Please take some time right now to fill it in.
You can also email <parks@richmond.gov.uk) or call 020 8286 8455 for more information or to offer help.
Comments
We use Moormead for football on Saturdays and are delighted to see the proposed improvements, all of which seem in tune with it's present users which I'm grateful for. I hope there will be some money however, for the reinstatement of the net to stop footballs hitting the locals' parked cars. It can't be fun for them on that score
Simon Foot on 2005-10-16 20:26:58 +0000The cars (and houses) need protection in the summer too; from cricket balls.I also think there is a lot to commend the plans, but is the ball court and shelter too hidden away? Ben Khosa
Ben Khosa on 2005-10-20 15:11:28 +0000I have a real issue with football being played in the park. The shouting and language used is offensive and really disruptive to me and my family and ruins our rare quiet weekend days. No other games require this constant barrage of noise and vocal agression .. it is quite unacceptable. This game should be played elsewhere, in and area not surrounded by family homes ... ie Marble Hill Park.
Richard Lindsley on 2005-10-25 06:35:39 +0000You clearly cannot mean the 4-12 year olds kids on Saturday and Sunday! That is one of the best things in all of St Margarets, the way the whole community of parents and children comes together.
Peter @ stmgrts.org.uk on 2005-10-26 10:31:04 +0000