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Let’s build a park to be proud of 2016 could be the year that Fishponds Park is brought into the 21st century. The park in the centre of the shopping area is one of the most popular in Bristol – but the children’s play equipment has seen better days. This year it is hoped that local people will come forward to support moves to give the park a major revamp. Greater Fishponds Neighbourhood Partnership has got the ball rolling by handing over nearly £20,000. Now it needs parents and other community members to form a Friends of Fishponds Park to raise money and decide what is needed in the park. Yvonne Sadler, chairwoman of the environmental subgroup, told the partnership meeting: “Fishponds Park is already a lovely green oasis but the children’s play area is quite tired. “The fact is that a lot of the mums there now used to play on it when they were toddlers.” The GFNP will allocate £19,579 of Section 106 money – contributions to the community
Reindeer trail is red-hot hit Sparkles the Reindeer at the Fire Basket is one of 40 on a trail in shop windows that is proving very popular.
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Chapel plans in the spotlight A scheme to create 14 flats at the former Ebenezer Chapel on Fishponds Road are under scrutiny from Fishponds Planning Group.
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Hillfields wins back its buses Bus operator First is restoring the 81service between Kingswood and Fishponds through Hillfields following a campaign by locals.
Page 17 from developers – for the park project.Volunteers who join the Friends will be able to work with council neighbourhood officers to apply for grants and other help to create a play park of similar quality
to others around the area. Fishponds Voice’s Caroline Galvin, a mother of three young children, welcomed the move. “Fishponds is changing and it needs a modern park,” she said.
Pre-school set to run centre The tenancy of the former Harry Crook Centre has been handed to a pre-school, to the dismay of the group that restored it..
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