Welcome to Friends of Pittville
The aim of the Friends of Pittville is to promote greater community involvement in the enjoyment, protection, future restoration and renewal of Pittville Park and Estate,
and, in so doing, support Cheltenham Borough Council in pursuing a Heritage Lottery Fund grant under the Parks for People Program. Funding from HLF would go towards an Access Plan, an Audience Development Plan, a Conservation Management Plan, a Training Plan, and a Maintenance Management Plan.
Plans to bid for Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) monies to restore Pittville Park and
Estate began in earnest in 2002, when the Cheltenham Borough Council (CBC) Cabinet
endorsed a proposal to "Prepare a Feasibility study and Master plan for the restoration
of Pittville Park". The HLF are extremely keen to see the involvement
of local people in projects such as this. The Friends of Pittville Group (FoP)
has, therefore, been playing an important and active role in supporting this project, and members of the group have been sitting on the Working Groups involved in the process, contributing
both information and ideas to the development of the application.
Since the inception of the Feasibility Study, the Landscape Agency Consultants have been preparing a Stage 1 application to the HLF under their Parks for People funding programme. Community First, consultants specialising in consultations with community, have been working with the CBC to prepare an audience development plan. The Stage 1 application calls for a wide range of information including the preparation of plans covering Audience Development, Conservation Management, Volunteer/Employee Training and 10 year Management and Maintenance.
Current State of Play
The final version of the "Master Plan" for the Stage I submission has been delivered to HLF. Details of the Conservation Management Plan documentation are now available by clicking here. More details of the other documents will soon be available.