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Advertisement Tarmac has helped give Grays Town Park in Grays, Thurrock a new lease of life with a grant from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund. The 130-year-old park had become neglected during recent times, but thanks to the hard work of local group, The Friends of Grays Town Park, it is gradually being returned to its Victorian finest, in the hope that many visitors will come to enjoy its gardens and a proposed new community café. Grants from Thurrock Council, Riverside Community Big Local and a £10 000 award from Tarmac’s Landfill Communities Fund have enabled the gardens to be overhauled and major landscaping work to be carried out on the east side of the park. This will include removing dead trees, adding new plants to help create biodiversity to encourage local wildlife, and a clean-up of the large decorative rocks. ....
Grays Town Park given new lease of life AFTER opening over 130 years ago, and becoming neglected during recent times, Grays Town Park has been given a new lease of life through the hard work of a local group and the award of several grants. The Park is now gradually being returned to its Victorian finest, and it is hoped many visitors will come to enjoy its gardens and a proposed new community café. Grants from Thurrock Council, Riverside Community Big Local and a £10,000 award from Tarmac’s Landfill Communities Fund have enabled the gardens to be overhauled and major landscaping work to be carried out, making the Park attractive once again to local residents and visitors to the area. This funding will be used for the transformation of the landscape garden on the East side of the Park. This will include removing dead trees, adding new plants, to help create biodiversity to encourage local wildlife, and a clean-up of the large decorative rocks. ....