Site name: Bowling green, off Manchester Rd, north side	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: ?	Date of survey: 29-Feb-00
Current management: Bowling green and adjacent open space disused.	Proposed management: Disused plot as a vegetable garden (edible plants) with lavender hedge (lavender hedges), wall climbers (wall climbers), herb spirals (herb spirals) or butterfly garden butterfly gardens) & pond construction (pond restoration/building).
	Date of Visual Survey - Aug 2004	Click map to see details and location of photographs

The ideas and possibilities outlined below are designed to help members of the local community as they think about what could happen on this site. Nothing is fixed and alternative solutions may well emerge over the coming decade - it is for the local community to decide and enable it to happen.Use the email button at the bottom right to volunteer to help and also to send additional information and ideas for specific sites

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Visual Attributes - update 2004 The locked entrance to this highly manicured bowling green, tucked behind shops and housing on Manchester Road, is unmarked and difficult to find on first visit.  The mown green is overlooked by the houses to the south and the steelworks to the north.  A wooden pavilion sits on the southwest corner and several benches also face the site along the south and west side of the green. A beech hedge partially bounds the site and a raised shrub and rockery bed divides it from the housing. There is also an untended area to the east of the site, which is overgrown with bindweed, although not unattractive. Safety The site feels safe, with a locked entrance and open aspect. Activities that could be supported in the future Planting could be improved, as the current border to the south edge is rather dull and not an asset to the site. The overgrown area could also be dug over and replanted with less invasive species.

Ideas for change A hedge has been planted since 2002 with the help of the Steel Valley Project. There is a disused allotment to the east of the bowling green - it is suggested that the owner be asked what they want to do with it in the future.

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Ecology

HABITAT TYPES FOUND ON SITE
	found 2002	aim by 2012		found 2002	aim by 2012
Amenity Grassland	*		Mosses and Bryophytes
Amenity Shrubs	*		Heath Land
Amenity Tree Planting			Wetlands
Amenity Flower Beds			Open Water
Amenity Hedges	*		Running Water
Rough Grassland	*		Cultivated/Disturbed Land
Acid Grassland			Bare Earth/Erosion
Marshy Grassland			Hedges
Trees Broadleaf			Walls	*
Trees Coniferous			Fences
Trees Mixed			Invasive Species
Scrub			Other (Please state)
Tall Herbs	*		Raised beds supporting garden plants & rockery on south side	*
Low Herbs and Shrubs (Native)
Amenity Bulb Planting

Stocksbridge SRB5 Greenspace Audit undertaken by Jim Flanagan for Sheffield Wildlife Trust - see their Community Action Handbook - full of good ideas for your local site

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