Tyndale Park

Tyndale
 

Client: 

Yate Town Council

 

The Landscape Consultancy Role:

  • Site planning and landscape design 
  • Preparation of contract documentation, tendering and contract administration 
  • Successful applications for £28,000 grant aid
  • Public consultation
  • Facilitation of school’s involvement in scheme design and planting on site 
  • Selection and commissioning of public artist to undertake design work for distinctive gates.

 

Project description:

The Landscape Consultancy won this commission through competitive tendering. They were commissioned to develop masterplan proposals for the enhancement of what was a run-down park with poor access and facilities in Yate.  Consultation with members of the local community, and the
involvement of students from the adjacent schools were key aspects of the design process.

Students were involved in the development of the overall proposals for the site, worked with the artist to produce designs which have been incorporated into the new gates for the site and planted
many of the new trees and shrubs. Newsletters were produced to invite local participation and keep neighbours informed.

 

Key improvements delivered as a result of the scheme were:

  • Enhanced play facilities, including equipment for younger children, and areas to use tricycles and bicycles 
  • Improved access to and through the park enabling its use as part of a safer route to school 
  • Provision of seating 
  • Improved setting to park entrances including distinctive gates to boost local identity 
  • Improved planting to improve both visual quality and habitat values
  • Provision of a dog-proof play area
  • Encouraging increased use of the park by a range of users, thereby increasing informal surveillance by passers-by 
  • Improved security along the school boundary, and enhanced buffering to adjacent residential properties 
  • Enhanced safety in preventing access to the adjacent canalised river

 

Date:

1999 – 2002: The project was implemented in phases to tie in with funding availability, and the Town Council hopes to implement wider enhancements if further resources are secured.