Showing posts with label yeadon green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yeadon green. Show all posts
Spotlight on Brookside Parks: Yeadon Green
We’ve had a very successful year with the Brookside Community Homeowner's Association Facebook Group this year. It’s grown so quickly!! Don’t forget to invite your neighbors if they aren’t on here yet!
With so many new residents to the area and Spring finally approaching, we thought it would be a great time to let you know what our community has to offer to your families!
Over the next month, we’ll be posting a series of information/photo packages to promote our beautiful parks, playgrounds and open spaces in Brookside. For over 20 years, the BCHA has worked hard to develop park lands that offer a variety of uses. We’re excited to share!
Yeadon Green Park, #20 Northcliffe Drive
Playground, Bicycle/Walking Trail and Picnic Park
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Nestled in the woods at #20 Northcliffe Drive, Yeadon Green Park is best known for it’s gorgeous new playground and walking trail loop to McGrath’s Lake. The brand new playground was installed in December of 2011 and is kid-tested and approved! It is rated for 18 months-12 year olds. There are some benches and picnic tables to relax and watch your kids play.
We’re working on improving signage at the park this summer because we discovered that most people didn’t realize there is a walking/biking loop from the playground that leads down to the lake front! It includes a boardwalk and an extra large picnic table to enjoy the lake view! The kids sure love the little trail walk to the lake, be sure to explore this park, it has something for everybody! Important side note: Strollers with larger wheels can make it around this entire trail!
As always, we’d love to hear your feedback on our parks!
Stay tuned later this week for our next spotlight!
Yeadon Green Path Work: Friday, September 14
The BCHA has arranged a load of crusher run to start surfacing the bicycle/walking trail at Yeadon Green Park on Northcliffe Avenue (it won't be enough to finish the whole trail at once).
The gravel is in a pile there now and will be being spread tomorrow morning starting around 10am.
Watching the machine work could be a fun field trip for a little tyke who likes to watch machinery; however, we would like to urge caution for anyone planning an adventure at the park tomorrow morning!!
BCHA Survey For 2012
Wishing you a Happy New Year and all the best in 2012 as Brookside welcomes its new citizens, new members of your family (the executive has seen two recent arrivals - baby Isaac and baby Lauryn) as well as our new arrival at Yeadon Green - a new playground!
After several years of lobbying, the direct efforts by many executive members of BCHA these past years, and the goodwill and partnerships with HRM Parks and Rec and our Councillor, Reg Rankin, BCHA managed to get this playground brought back to its former level of play for our children. We hope you enjoy the renewed playground at Yeadon Green on Northcliffe Drive as it looks great even on a snowy day.
We have also completed the Lover's Cove Park picnic shelter and gardens on Cathy Road and the parking area at Wendy's Meadow Park on Melanson Lane…so we have had a great 2011!!
We invite you to further give us your feedback with a few minutes of your time to complete the community survey we have prepared to launch us forward in 2012. The results will be discussed and decisions taken at the Annual General meeting to be held on March 28th at the Prospect Road Community Centre. Mark your new 2012 calendars to attend - your input shapes our community!
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| New Yeadon Green Playground located on Northcliffe Drive |
Work At Yeadon Green Continues
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| Yeadon Green - Phase I Complete |
Phase III includes installing new play equipment complete with swings, a climbing apparatus, slides and new cribbing and gravel around it all. HRM has awarded the Phase III contract to Timbertech. The equipment will be installed when Timbertec has the unit ready - hopefully in a few weeks!
We are currently growing our team of volunteers! If you would like to be involved in making positive changes like this one in our community, please contact info@bcha.ca - you can make a difference.
Yeadon Green Gets A Facelift!
Everyone who walks the bicycle trail at Yeadon Green will have noticed that the old playground equipment has been removed in preparation for a facelift! BCHA has been working with HRM for the past 3 summers to improve the playground at this park and we're excited that it's underway! Special thanks to Councillor Reg Rankin for his support of this project.
Phase I began last fall with improvements to the drainage pathways behind the old play equipment. That work helped divert water away from the play area. The weather this summer has helped us identify other areas where drainage can be improved.
Phase II begins this fall with the removal of the old equipment (pics below) and will continue with raising the play area and improving the grading so that water will drain off into the existing waterways.
Phase III includes installing new play equipment complete with swings, a climbing apparatus, slides and new cribbing and gravel around it all. HRM currently has this work out to tender. If all goes well, the new playground will be ready for use in the Spring!
If you would like to be involved in making positive changes like this one in our community, please contact info@bcha.ca - we are always in need of volunteers who wish to make a difference.
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