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Give your views on Beggarwood Park
5:34pm Wednesday 17th September 2008
Comments (15)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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Philo Heath, Basingstoke says...
12:01pm Thu 18 Sep 08
I hope we are not talking about "Improvements to the Park" and we are not just talking to parents about childrens games. The people of Beggarwood have tiny gardens and need somewhere for adults with or with out children, young and old as well as teenagers and kids to go.
They need somewhere to meet, relax or even vote.
If this turns out to be a council fix I will not be happy.
As councillor I asked the council to make sure they got adults with no children involved the advertising, this article and the ideas mentioned include nothing to show we want adults involved.
Why can they not stick to anything without adding a twist?
Sam Weller, Hatch Warren says...
7:26am Fri 19 Sep 08
shazer, beggarwood, basingstoke says...
9:58am Fri 19 Sep 08
Truus Hewett, Hatch Warren says...
11:57am Fri 19 Sep 08
The park, if maintained - not like the untidy mess it looks now - is fine as it is. It could be enhanced with just a few large trees to give some shade in the summer, as it can get extremely hot when temperatures rise. Also some indestructible, immovable benches, dotted around, would be welcome, otherwise absolutely no additions please. Indoor activities do not belong in a woodland park, nor a golf course of any description. As regards the maze, even that project was a waste of money, now it is as good as invisible because of the overgrowing weeds. It was an interesting feature for very small toddlers when it was first opened but we have not seen it used for a very long time.
Please do not spoil our park, but keep it properly maintained, otherwise we shall wish that you had never taken away the cornfields that where there.
pingu, Iceland says...
12:22pm Fri 19 Sep 08
Ruth, Beggarwood says...
12:51pm Fri 19 Sep 08
Now in my book, development includes housing, play or recreational areas.
Why can't it be left alone? There are few areas of open space in the area that people can just go and enjoy.
Glad so many agree. I shall be voicing my concern at the consultation tomorrow.
The Voice of Reason, Amazingstoke says...
8:54am Sat 20 Sep 08
Here's an opportunity to see some improvements in our local area - and as a regular user of the park the main thing I want to see is better maintenance - the maze is totally shocking and such a shame that it has been left to grow over. Also maybe some sort of activity - not in a building but in the open.
Other than that, just keep it open and let nature and the seasons let it mature.
Peace and love to all!!
Harry Robinson, Hatch Warren says...
3:51pm Sat 20 Sep 08
BonzoDog, local says...
8:30am Sun 21 Sep 08
Community meeting facilities are down the pub or on the internet, nature walks are the weekly rush around Sainsburys and jogging is in front of the wii.....
T Potts, Wonderland says...
3:51pm Sun 21 Sep 08
Keerrrr Ching......
Guess we may need more councillors too, to look after the influx . . .
The Voice of Reason, Amazingstoke says...
5:08pm Sun 21 Sep 08
BonzoDog wrote:Bonzo - did you go to the event? Did you see the responses that people provided? If not, how do you know what people in the area want?
You are so optimistic Harry, all people really want is somewhere to walk their dogs, and a piece of land protected from further development. Community meeting facilities are down the pub or on the internet, nature walks are the weekly rush around Sainsburys and jogging is in front of the wii.....
Ruth, Beggarwood says...
12:48pm Mon 22 Sep 08
I went to the event, just before it finished and it was certainly refreshing to see the amount of red marks against things like playgrounds, facilities for teenagers, disc golf course, indoor museums etc. Instead the likes of wildlife and natural signage were filled with green marks.
I wonder how far the council will listen to the residents and provide what they actually want, not what they think we should want.
LT, Beggarwood says...
10:29am Wed 24 Sep 08
No buildings PLEASE! With the housing so close to each other we need just an open space somewhere amongst all the bricks, for the children to run and play, for me to 'brisk' walk, to sit and look at the sky - anything!!
And talking of buildings, if we need anything it's probably a Community Centre (we can vote in it) - so why not use the land where Beggarwood Surgery was originally sited in its portacabin form? It's a big plot and vacant, or even a school - we have many many young families here and they must have to travel a fair distance to an Infant/Junior school.
Just one other gripe, if I may, and does anyone else feel the same:
Old Beggarwood Lane has been altered into a really nice footpath, but why oh why are the council cutting the hedges in August and cutting off all the blackberry blossom/developing fruit??!! I am a keen blackberryer and this was a good area, and there are too few of them. I like to see it neat and tidy, but let us have the fruit and maybe trim in October?
Robbie McConnell, Beggarwood says...
11:53pm Mon 29 Sep 08
And regarding the article that appeared in the gazette i think the last thing that Beggarwood needs is another children's play park, there are loads already. I really think that more trees would go well.
If some crap facilities must be put in for everyone but teenagers, then why couldn't they be put in across the road from the co-op?
That land isn't being used for anything, and looks like an eyesore.
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T Potts, Wonderland says...
7:00pm Wed 17 Sep 08
I guess with Beggarwood Park it will be 'Indoor Climbing Centre' = Block of social flats with no lift, 'Indoor Skating' will be when it freezes in winter and the 'boarding' will be whats on the windows in ten years time.
But on a Positive note, it should make the west of Basingstoke look more like the east of it.