FAMILIES are invited to a free event today to celebrate the completion of a regeneration project on Barrow Island.
The garden party will take place in the area between Brig Street and Barque Street from 2pm until 7pm today.
Entertainment will include fire-breathing demonstrations, face-painting, table tennis, outdoor chess, refreshments and live music from tribute acts Tony as Robbie, Elton and Tiff.
The event has been organised by Barrow Borough Council and Maritime Apartments with contractors Ground Control and Farrer Huxley.
In 2013, Barrow Borough Council lodged a brief with the Landscape Institute for a competition to improve the public areas in and around the flats on Barrow Island.
The design has been drawn up by Farrer Huxley Associates and James Smith, the team selected by Barrow Borough Council to lead the project after £1m was secured from the government’s Clusters of Empty Homes Fund.
The project will include creating a number of unique sensory spaces connected by paths, paving, planting, lawns, a play area and growing areas.
The plan also involves creating a restricted parking zone for residents only. Parking spaces will fall from 146 to 98.
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