Give your views on Beggarwood Park (From This is Hampshire)

Give your views on Beggarwood Park

5:34pm Wednesday 17th September 2008

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AN INDOOR climbing centre, an interactive science museum or an indoor skating and boarding centre are three suggestions being considered to improve a Basingstoke park.

Residents will have a chance to give their opinions on ways to spend the £1million set aside for improvements to Beggarwood Park at a consultation event planned for this Saturday (20/9).

A disc golf course has also been mooted for the park, which would be a first for north Hampshire. The sport is similar to golf, but players use discs, such as Frisbees, which they throw into baskets rather than holes.

Residents will also be asked to consider proposals for cycle and walking routes, an improved maze and types of play facilities plus other features.

Councillor Keith Chapman, Cabinet member for sport and leisure, said: "Beggarwood Park serves a large number of people but it has never really lived up to its full potential and is mostly used as open space and by walkers and dog walkers.

"We want local people to be really involved in planning how the park can be improved and developed in the future."

The consultation is targeted at those living in the Beggarwood area, but anyone in the borough can take part. The consultation event will be held in a marquee in the park, near the Broadmere Road shops, between 1.30pm and 4.30pm.

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