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It's well known that greener streets are healthier streets and for 30 years now Groundwork has helped communities create their own gardens, play areas, allotments and parks. People will gather together around gardening - and with food miles adding more to the price of fruit and vegetables in the shops, more and more communities are banding together to grow their own. We work with community groups, housing associations and local authorities to improve all sorts of green spaces for people to use for exercise, or to sit in, kids to play and people of all ages to enjoy being outdoors. Our landscape archietects want places to look cleaner, street to be safer and outside areas to be green and beautiful so everyone has quality green spaces nearby no matter where they live.
Location: Collyhurst, Manchester Groundwork MSSTT landscape design team redeveloped a redundant car park into a natural play area, thanks to funding from the Big Lottery and United Futures.
Location: Manchester Groundwork MSSTT Landscape Design Team worked for Manchester City Council to revelop a previously run down street in Manchester.
Location: Marlborough Street Estate, Central Leeds Residents of the Marlborough Street estate can now relax as well as get involved in food growing and gardening activities on their doorstep thanks to the development of two brand new garden areas on land once dominated by concrete paving slabs.
Location: Lingdale, Cleveland Lingdale Lift Off group transformed disused land into a beautiful park
Location: Camden Groundwork London ran Camden Greening, a programme of gardening projects across six of Camden’s housing estates. On Regents Park Estate a neglected and disused space was transformed into a thriving community garden with 26 food growing spaces.
Location: Leiston As part of Dulux’s 'Let’s Colour' campaign we worked with local volunteers and an artist to create an exciting new mural in the Long Shop Museum’s courtyard garden in Leiston, Suffolk.
Location: Holywells Park, Ipswich Seven members of staff from some of Amey's regional offices gave a day of their time to help maintain and improve green spaces at Holywells Park, Ipswich in October 2012.
Location: Oldham Unearthing the Past seeks to rediscover local heritage through archaeology, learning and community engagement.
Location: Colchester High Woods in Focus was a photography competition launched in May 2012 to support the conservation of High Woods Country Park, Colchester as part of the M&S @myurbangreen campaign.
Location: Markham Vale Markham Vale is a 200 acre business/industrial park located at the recently new Junction 29A on the M1. It is positioned between the towns of Bolsover and Chesterfield, on land that used to be the Markham Colliery site.
