Lottery windfall to improve Greenmount Station

Greenmount Community Group has been awarded £26,250 to improve the former site of Greenmount Station. The money is from ‘Community Spaces’, a grant programme managed by Groundwork UK on behalf of the Big Lottery Fund, which supports communities wanting to improve their local greenspace.

The work will include thinning of the trees and shrubs that have overgrown the site, the improvement of drainage through construction of a wildlife pond, path improvements and improvements to the Brandlesholme Road entrance including provision of a new 'feature bench'. 

Work should take place between January and April 2013 and will be supervised by Bury Council, which is acting as 'Accountable Body' for the Community Group.

Chair of the Greenmount Community Group, Alistair Waddell said; "We were overjoyed to hear we'd got the money to improve the site, which is at the centre of the village, as well as being the start of the Kirklees Trail and entrance to the Kirklees Valley Local Nature Reserve."