Brighton park to get £53k make-over

A park in Elm Grove is to benefit from new play equipment and improved surfacing, pathways, fencing and drainage.
William Clarke ParkWilliam Clarke Park
William Clarke Park

Brighton and Hove City Council has pledged £53,000 to improving William Clarke Park, also known as ‘The Patch’.

The cash comes from developers’ contributions, and the council said the works will take up to a month.

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Work is being co-ordinated with the Friends of William Clarke Park, which has its own programme of works scheduled over the next two months, expected to be completed by Patchfest spring festival on April 22-23.

Cllr Gill Mitchell, chairman of the environment committee, said: “It’s a pleasure to be able to improve a park at a time when budgets are so tight. Getting funding from external sources and the work of these fantastic friends groups will become increasingly important in future.”

William Clarke Park is named after a former councillor and railway worker who was mayor of Brighton in 1975. The elongated park is formed from a railway cutting. It led to a 900-metre tunnel under Elm Grove, serving the Kemp Town branch line, emerging at the bottom of Freshfield Road. The line closed in 1971.

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