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In response to a Member’s query, the Queen’s Park Manager advised that the play area would cost £370,000 in total, split into three building phases. The purchase of play equipment on the first phase would cost £80,000. The City had so far allocated £64,000 over two years to the project. The Group noted a donation of £10,000 from QPARA and thanked the Association for its generosity. The Director of Open Spaces advised that the City was currently managing a number of capital projects and due to the budget reductions it was currently not possible to allocate any additional funding to the Queen’s Park play area.

 

In response to a Member’s query, the Director advised that she believed the project did not fit with any current City Bridge Trust campaigns and that it consequently may be difficult to obtain a grant. In response to a Member’s query, the Director advised that it may be possible to provide facilities for fundraising events in Guildhall, but a formal application would need to be raised with the Remembrancer.

 

In response to a Member’s query, the Queen’s Park Manager advised that progression to the end of phase two of the project would cost £200,000. The play area had been designed to be built in its entirety and there was a risk that, if the project finished at the end of stage one or two, the area could look unfinished. A Member suggested that the project could be broken up into smaller phases in order to make fundraising more manageable. The Queen’s Park Manager undertook to submit a report on the matter to the November 2012 meeting of the Group.