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Monthly Update

SAVING SOUTH CLIFF GARDENS

Hello and welcome to

the South Cliff Gardens

Monthly Update!

Here we will share all the most

recent news from the South Cliff

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Merry Christmas from the whole of the South Cliff

Gardens Community Team!!

The Christmas tree has arrived in Prince of

Wales Gardens. Thanks are due to the Red Lea Hotel who kindly sponsor this seasonal “beacon” and Roger Burnett who organises

setting up the tree.

The picture above was produced by our Project Officer’s little brother who created this artwork on paint

https://www.instagram.com/bsixes/

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New Consultants to take on

the HLF phase 2 bid for South

Cliff

Gardens

What’s been happening …….

Southern Green the consultants responsible for producing our round two submission have hit

the ground running; here's a few activities that have been carried out by Southern Green and our amazing team of experts:

Landscape topographic survey completed at the end of November.

Building topographic survey completed in December.

Arboricultural survey in progress.

Design consultants appointed.

Consultation plan in progress and initial session held with local residents and

FoSCG.

Garden Historian and FOSCG visited County Archives.

Initial site analysis plans underway which will feed into the Conservation Management Plan. For example, historic map reviews, existing building analysis,

footpath gradient analysis, site context and other desktop mapping studies.

Huge shout out to Southern Green and their team for the amazing work they have done

so far!

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CFP is a specialist Heritage and Green Space consultancy that have extensive knowledge of developing, managing and delivering HLF projects. The team has

worked on over 100 such projects since the company was established in 2002.

CFP has worked with Southern Green on a number of HLF and other projects and we recently completed the R2 submission at

North Marine Park in South Shields.

CFP run the monitoring contract for the HLF Parks for People project and have been involved in gathering data from HLF funded projects for the last 9 years.

CFP also carried out research for HLF for

the State of UK Parks reports in both 2014 and 2016.

CFP (Community First

Partnership) join the Saving

South Cliff Gardens Team!

Consultation on the Saving South

Cliff Gardens project has now started and this will run alongside

the site survey work being co-ordinated by Southern Green. We

will be launching a new visitor survey early in 2018 and will be

running other surveys including a schools survey in the new year.

During the development stage works we will be running

workshops, exhibitions and drop in sessions to provide an opportunity

to talk with visitors to the gardens and local residents. Once proposals have been developed we will then

be seeking feedback from local

people about the draft plans.

We will use this newsletter to promote these opportunities and

look forward to hearing your

views.

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Three of our volunteers

clearing a flower bed ready for planting. Hard

work but it will be

worth it when next year there will be

flowers to brighten the path down to

the Spa Complex.

The daffodils we

planted are already showing

but the cold weather will slow

them down.

Regular visitors to the

Esplanade will have noticed that the boat in the boat bed has been missing

since it was lent to an

exhibitor with a show garden at the Chelsea

Flower show. Well as you can see from a

picture taken on a grey November day, it's back.

WELCOME HOME!

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Friends Group Visit Pannett Park

Early in November a group of our volunteers visited Pannett Park to see how their Heritage Lottery Fund project has prospered. It clearly has been a very successful exercise in regenerating a neglected park.

We have many of the same issues they confronted and we are determined to have a similar result.

Pannett Park is really an attractive pleasant park with a quality we will strive to achieve.

This young man from Landform Surveys working in the gardens was taking three dimensional pictures of all the buildings/structures in the gardens for use

in the stage two Parks for People Heritage Lottery

bid. The project is really getting moving!

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Pictured is the Friends first introduction to the people from Southern Green the

consulting firm leading our stage two bid to the Heritage Lottery.

Pictured to the right is Simon Green who is a Chartered Landscape Architect with

almost 30 years professional experience. Prior to founding Southern Green in 1997 he worked in local authorities and private practice and was project manager

for the award-winning Royal Quays urban renewal project.

Simon specialises in heritage projects and has helped local authorities and com-munity groups secure a staggering £51million in HLF grants over the last decade

so we think we are in safe hands.

The Friends of South Cliff Gardens meet Southern Green

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South Cliff Story Sharing Event Thanks to everyone who joined us at Scarborough library on the first three Saturdays of December. People came along to share their stories, memories, photos or anything interesting about Scarborough’s South Cliff Gardens. We are building an archive about the garden so these events were very useful. Here’s one of our favourites…... “I’ve lived here for 30 years and I used to walk

my dogs every morning in the South Cliff Gardens. One morning at about 06:10hrs I

walked across the top of the Holbeck Ravine, looked down and about 10 meters below me a deer gave birth to two young. She stood and

cleaned them up in the morning sun it was just magical!

Huge thanks to Scarborough’s library for

letting us use their facilities! Our Project Officer Vicky said “I learnt more in an hour at the library then I did in a month of

googling the South Cliff Gardens!”

Here’s a photo provided by Green Counsellor,

Mark Vesey showing the Sea Queen Pageant

at the Spa descending the steps. If anyone

remembers this please do get in touch!

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Creating a fully inclusive and accessible heritage garden

ACCESS AND INCLUSION

Several members of the Scarborough Dementia Action Alliance have fond memories of the South Cliff Gardens, and regret no longer being able to enjoy them. They thus

welcome the opportunity to contribute to the Project discussions, and to the Gardens

becoming accessible for people with dementia and their carers.

Tim Kirkup

Chair

https://www.dementiaaction.org.uk/local_alliances/10687_scarborough_dementia_action_alliance

Mental Health

Dementia Friendly Garden

Several members of the Scarborough Dementia Action Alliance have fond

memories of the South Cliff Gardens, and regret no longer being able to enjoy

them. They thus welcome the opportunity to contribute to the Project discussions,

and to the Gardens becoming accessible for people with dementia and their

carers.

Tim Kirkup, Chair

https://www.dementiaaction.org.uk/

local_alliances/10687_scarborough_dementia_action_alliance

DAA members have been very supportive of the project and have offered hugely valuable

contributions which will help us make the gardens as accessible as possible! It’s going to be a big

Originally the South Cliff Gardens were

designed to boost the wellbeing and

health of visitors to Scarborough . People

flocked to take the spa waters and get

fresh air by walking the Cliffside gardens.

Today mental health is an increasing

issue for the people of Scarborough so our

community team have decided that we

need to bring back some of that original

identity and purpose.

If you have any ideas or would like to be

involved please see the contact page and

get in touch !

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Huge thanks to Scarborough Sight Support

Our project Officer Vicky Thompson was lucky enough to be invited along to one of

Scarborough’s Sight Support lunches to ask the group what they thought we could

do in the South Cliff Gardens to make the site more accessible to people who have

visual impairments. Huge thank to Sight Support for their warm welcome, their

advice and the amazing work they do in the community giving people back their

independence .

Here’s some of their recommendations:

“Keep planting brightly coloured and contrasting, yellow is good!”

“Handrails are essential on steps and slopes”

“For me it’s like looking through net curtains I can’t see anything unless it’s really

bright or lit up. When you’re designing the garden think about what it would look like

through net curtains”

“If the edges of paths were a different colour that would be good so we know we are

not going to wonder off the edge of a cliff. Strip lighting is good for this too“

“Yes signs that say Spa this way for people who are going to attend concerts they

regularly get lost in the garden you need signs that are lit up that they can see from a

long way away“

“Toilets need to be your number on priority. You need more toilets in particular

disabled and accessible toilets with radar keys but put them in places where there is

no vandalism. We cant use the garden without toilets(whole group agrees) “

“Something exciting with wow factor !!”

“Soft plants no spikes or thorns – something gentle that asks just to be stroked!”

To find out more about Scarborough Sight Support:

Web: www.ycss.org.uk

Call: 01723354417

Open 10am—4pm

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Join us

TRAINING AND VOLUNTEERING

Amazing organization Northern

Regeneration are passionate

about reducing Scarborough’s

skills gap in construction and

offering young people the

opportunity to learn real on the job

skills.

Our Team is going to be working

with them to set up a horticultural

skills village here in the South Cliff

Gardens during the delivery

stage. Offering local people the

opportunity to learn about

horticulture and heritage skills in a

real life work setting.

Well that’s the plan!

Find out more about the Skills

Village here:

http://skills-village.co.uk/

Here in the South Cliff Gardens Team we excited to be are linking up with Historic England’s

Heritage Schools programme.

The Pogramme manager for the North said:

“I cant wait to get stuck in and work on ideas to engage local Schools with Scarborough’s heritage and the South Cliff Gardens offers lots of exciting

opportunities to do so!”

The aim of the Heritage Schools programme is to make sure that:

Children develop a sense of pride in where they live

Children understand their local heritage and how it

relates to the national story

Teachers are more confident in making effective use of local heritage resources in delivering the curriculum

Local historic context is embedded in the school's curriculum

Heritage providers are more connected to the needs

of local schools

Parents are engaged in their children's learning

Communities are more deeply involved in the life of the

school

Read more about the Heritage Schools

Programme here:

www.historicengland.org.uk/services-skills/

education/heritage-schools/

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Please get in touch

CONTACT US

If you're interested in getting

involved in the project, would like

to know more or you have a

great idea, fabulous painting of

the South Cliff or an interesting

photo please do not hesitate to

get in touch with us….

The more people involved

the merrier!

Website: http://

friendsofsouthcliffgardens.com/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/

southcliffgardens

Twitter: @HLFSCGarden

Project Officer: Vicky Thompson

victoria.thompson@scarborough.gov.uk

Find out more about the Heritage Lottery Fund here:

https://www.hlf.org.uk/about-us

Data Gathering

Painting a picture of what the garden

looks like now is really important so that

we can demonstrate that all the hard

work being carried out by our community

has made an impact.

We are gathering data through our online

visitor survey, visitor interviews and

counts, collecting peoples stories, wildlife

sightings & surveys and old photographs,

looking at archives and artworks.

You can find the link to our online survey

here:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/8WLL6HY

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We would like to end the year by saying

a huge thank you to the Heritage Lottery

Fund and national lottery players who

without them, our project to save the

much loved South Cliff Gardens

wouldn't be possible.

BIG THANK YOU TO HLF!