Grants Gradens.

flypie125 said:

I've put together a sort of idea for what to do with Grant Gardens, I doubt any development will ever be allowed on it and with Everton park so close it virtually unused. How about letting it Naturalise.

https://unlistedliverpool.blogspot.com/2017/10/a-park-and-experiment.html

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I expect the city council look on a huge open dpace that gets cut with a ride-on mower once a fortnight in summer as the cheapest option, but I can say from experience (my old house overlooked the Gardens) that it can be a bleak auld space. The simple arrangement of paths (one long one bisecting it from front to back gates, and a semicircular one to the side gate) should facilitate a straightforward division into zones like you suggest. A few more trees to break up the open space really would help too.

B&I said:

I expect the city council look on a huge open dpace that gets cut with a ride-on mower once a fortnight in summer as the cheapest option, but I can say from experience (my old house overlooked the Gardens) that it can be a bleak auld space. The simple arrangement of paths (one long one bisecting it from front to back gates, and a semicircular one to the side gate) should facilitate a straightforward division into zones like you suggest. A few more trees to break up the open space really would help too.

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All I meant with the serpentine path was to give people longer walks and make the place seem bigger by allowing enough space to block the view. The would be zones as such.

The council already has one park base on regeneration, it might make it a little easier to pursuade them. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/mayor-reveals-new-park-plan-11657999 this is about 30-40 years.

Where I now live in Norway there is a cutting which shows all the stages of returning to nature. There's an unmanaged forest right next to my house with a mix of pine, fir and birch/beech. What I find amazing are the mosses and lichens that carpet the ground and seem to grow on any surface possible.

As a kid we'd always end up playing on derelict/bombed out land and were oblivious to the joys of nature's ability to colonise land once more.

I really do lament the massive **** up with the National Widlflower Centre as it was local and a real gem. Turning over green spaces like this would help a few people see the benefit first hand across the city and surrounding areas.