Play area and public open space improvements

Gillies Park play area

Tonight’s meeting of the Environment Committee agreed to spend £150,000 on a city wide programme of play area and public open space improvements. The following works are to be undertaken in Broughty Ferry:

Gillies Park– the rubber safety surfacing on the play area is being repaired and redundant spring animals are being removed and replaced with new ones;

Castle Green- the rubber safety surfacing is being repaired in the play area and the adventure golf is to have the landscaping improved to make it a more welcoming place;

Strathmore Street/Hamilton Street- the overgrown shrub beds are to be removed and replaced with suitable plantings which will improve the appearance of the area whilst not increasing maintenance costs;

Barnhill Cemetery- concrete pads will be installed for new benches and repairs will be carried out to the wall;

Dawson Park- old shrubs are to be removed at the entrance to the park and re-planting carried out to improve the visual amenity of the park while ensuring that the maintenance costs stay the same.