Applications for round four of Hull City Council’s pocket park scheme can now be made.
To date, the flagship scheme has developed numerous sites across the city, improving unloved, neglected or derelict areas into new green space to benefit the physical and mental wellbeing of local people.
Pocket parks also provide good quality green space for social interaction in a sustainable and community-led manner and are part of the council’s wider plan to make Hull a greener, cleaner and safer place to live.
The local community is at the forefront of the programme, with residents now able to propose further locations for pocket parks in their area by contacting their local ward councillor or neighbourhood co-ordinator.
The proposed sites are typically no larger than 0.4 hectares and are small green areas on council-owned land.
The deadline for completed applications for the next wave of pocket parks is Wednesday 27 May at 12noon.
Councillor Rob Pritchard, portfolio holder for culture and leisure at the council, said: “People told us they wanted nice, new green spaces in their communities.
“As a council, we have listened to this and already we’ve delivered several new pocket parks with more on the way.
“It’s fantastic to see members of the community stepping up, taking pride and helping to care for their local spaces and we’ll continue to work with them to invest in their communities to transform green spaces.”