Site name: Stocksbridge Clock Tower Memorial Gardens	Zone: Inner Zone
Land owner: SCC Leisure Services	Date of survey: 29-Feb-00
Current management: As a formal park. Amenity grass, flowerbeds & shrub borders managed.	Proposed management: Re-route footpath to gap in wall west of clock tower and continue west to join dead end path and to continue to west entrance. More variety in shrubs and experimental areas for wildflower meadows, with poppy in seed mix. Improved borders to path and possible stone-made raised beds set in to slope with innovative planting scheme.
	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.

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3.	Visual Attributes - update 2004 This well maintained formal public park runs along the sloping bank between Manchester Road and Nanny Hill and mainly comprises mown amenity grass with flower beds and shrub borders. A dense band of rhododendrons lines the southern edge in front of a low stone wall, next to the pavement of Nanny Hill. The Clock Tower, situated towards the top of the hill on the edge of the site, interrupts this rhododendron border. A narrow platform, accessible from the road via a small gate, surrounds its base and provides a good view of the park and beyond. This is surrounded by a large shrub bed of holly, variegated laurel, roses and hydrangea. The eastern boundary also consists of rhododendron planting, which grows beneath a belt of trees, including cherry, rowan, elder and willow. There is also a limited number of individual trees planted throughout the park. Circulation through the site is provided by undulating tarmac paths (with a few benches at points along them) and there are three entrances into the park, one at the top, southeast corner, one with stone steps at the northwest corner by a bus stop, and the last to the east of the boundary off Manchester Road. This wide, stepped entrance is flanked by two areas of mixed shrubs, including berberis and ivy.
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6.	Safety The site feels safe as it is well maintained with clear sightlines and is within view from the main road.  Paths are open, away from the dense shrub planting. Activities that the site supports at present The site is used to walk through and sit in.
Activities that could be supported in the future Planting could be improved by varying the types of shrubs used in the borders and by adding more trees. More experimental planting (e.g. meadow) could replace the formal blocks of bedding plants.	Ideas for change This site has been managed as a traditional urban park. Any future changes need to maintain the view of the Clock Tower. In the long term it is suggested that an arboretum could be created to commemorate local people, including those who have made an important contribution to Stocksbridge. Meanwhile, continuation of planting up in the mown areas without beds, for example, with copper beech, could be considered.

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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