A PROBLEM open space in Pershore is to become a garden area tended to by local residents after the results of a questionnaire were announced.
Residents living in seven roads surrounding Hill Close were sent the survey in February to determine the future use of the land which had been closed to the public after complaints about the land being misused.
Those sent the questionnaire were asked to choose one of three options. These were to turn the area into a community garden, to allow residents to rent the space on a garden licence or to transform it into a small landscaped garden.
The option of residents renting the area was the favoured option with 40 per cent or respondents deciding that was the best use of the land.
Parks Officer at Wychavon District Council, Lynn Stevens said: “Option B (garden licence) was clearly the most favourable option and I will now be getting in touch with residents.
“We were very happy with the number of responses. We had some interesting results and comments from the respondents.
“The area has not been used very much in recent times by children or anyone else for that matter. It was a difficult area as when it was being used it was in the wrong way.”
Mrs Stephens will now write to the residents offering them the opportunity to take on the garden licence but if there is insufficient interest then the area will be turned into a community garden.
A total of 180 questionnaires were sent out and 70 responses were received by Wychavon. The forms allowed residents to make comments on the land and the most common responses were to use the land for affordable housing, allotments or to sell the land.
