HERITAGE LOTTERY FUND BID

Burnley Council has been successful in securing a £2M grant to help fund a major programme of restoration and improvements to the park.

The cash injection will go towards a £3.2million, five-year project to restore the park and take it into the 21st century. The remainder is to be funded by the Council and other partners.

The project will restore many of the Park’s historic features, such as the ornamental gardens and improve facilities for visitors, including new toilets, a refurbished playground and better signage. A significant part of the funding will be used to improve car parking facilities and footpaths. Access to the park for pedestrians will be improved by a bus service operating at summer weekends and school holidays.

The restoration plans have been developed following careful research into the history of Towneley Park by landscape restoration experts and project staff have consulted park users from across the borough and worked closely with the Friends of Towneley Park in drawing up the restoration plan.

 

 

Towneley Park is Burnley’s most visited and treasured park across East Lancashire. Only Pendle Hill is more visited. Events attract over 20,000 visitors a year to the park.

The restoration project has taken several years to obtain final approval from the Heritage Lottery Fund. An initial restoration plan which identified over 100 proposals to improve the park was published in 2001 following which the council submitted a bid for funding. In March 2004 the council obtained outline approval and has spent the last year working up the restoration proposals in greater detail and developing a 10-year management and maintenance plan for the park.

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