Site name: Carr Head playground & open space	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: SCC Housing	Date of survey: 1-Mar-00
Current management: Amenity grass area mown	Proposed management: As a pocket park with improved play facilities (play equipment) and perhaps butterfly and/or sensory/herbed garden (butterfly gardens). Wildflower bulb planting (wildflower bulb planting) with some trees (fruit) or shrubs (tree & shrub planting).
	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

1.	Visual Attributes - update 2004 This well kept, hidden playground site is totally surrounded by housing and accessed via a narrow alleyway off Hillcrest Road between two houses. The border of the site consists of a variety of shrubs, trees and fences surrounding a large expanse of sloping mown amenity grass. A flat tarmac area with three sets of swings, a slide and two benches sits at the west side of the site. Views down the valley towards Wharncliffe Crags and the distant hills are exceptional.
Safety The site is overlooked by housing on all sides, so it feels safe to enter and use.  Activities the site supports at present The site is used by children for play.	2.
3.	Activities that could be supported in the future The playground could be improved with the addition of more exciting, imaginative play spaces and equipment, such as balance beams, earth mounds and banks, and small spaces to build dens, etc. Some of the mown grass could be replaced with less maintenance intensive plantings, which could also increase the visual quality of the space.

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	*
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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