Wychbold Park Improvement Plan

Dodderhill Parish Council is issuing this Request for Formal Quotations for the competitive procurement of six pieces of work (5 separate phases) to be carried out at Wychbold Playing Fields, School Road, Wychbold WR9 7PU. Site visits are mandatory to tender for this work and requests for site visits or any questions can be addressed to the Wychbold PIP (Park Improvement Plan) Coordinator: [email protected] or tel: 07821 641382 or to the Parish Council Clerk: [email protected] - tel: 01527 372548.

Paths - Phase 1a Aims • To improve access and accessibility for all abilities to the allotments, orchard and football fields by widening and extending existing paths. • To use suitable pathway materials that will have minimal impact on the surroundings, match existing paths including those in the sensory garden; paths will include sufficient turning circles for inclusivity and relevant signage. • To include permanent distance markers on path surfaces to encourage exercise.

Car Park - Phase 1b Aims • Separating pedestrian and vehicle routes where feasible. • To mark out parking spaces for disabled users and for electric charging use. • To add electric charging point for vehicles. • To replace current tarmac area with an eco-friendly surface that includes space for plants yet provides hard standing for cars • To remove and appropriately dispose of via a licensed waste carrier, the existing car park barrier. • Supply and install a replacement car park barrier with height restrictions to prevent the entrance of larger/ higher vehicles at the entrance to the car park which can be opened if/ when larger vehicles are needed to carry out works in the park area. • To replace outside lights with nocturnal animal-friendly ones. • Review of car park to provide further suggested improvements.

Community Sensory Garden - Phase 2 Aims- Reduce and Tidy This is to be a beautiful and peaceful place to sit, rest and reflect and contemplate. It will also be used as a community meeting place, a site for workshops, remembrance services, carol singing and other community activities. It needs to be accessible to all and include seating and shelter.

Wildlife Corridors - Phase 3 Information A number of hedges run alongside the orchard, allotments, playing fields area, car park and proposed sensory garden. These have been in situ for many years and some like the one to the side of the orchard are protected. A number of areas have been damaged or destroyed and a gate, no longer used, makes a big break in the hedge alongside Stoke Road.

Orchard - Phase 4 Aims - To enhance the existing orchard so that it becomes a functioning community orchard.

Community Allotment Plot - Phase 5 Aims • To improve access by widening existing paths and creating new paths • To improve the community plot.