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2025-09-10
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Pavilion Latest Picture
Project code: 973
Estimated Price
£1,790
Project Summary
Dalry Community Sports Club are in the final stages of the CAT process in relation to the sports pavilion at Dalry Public Park. As part of our temporary occupation licence, we have invested substantial funding and time to help bring this old facility up to a standard that has enabled us to facilitate various community events and organisations. To continue this investment, we are looking to bring, back into use, the old floodlights that are in the area immediately in front of the pavilion.
Project Description
Dalry Public Park has great potential to be developed into an area that can help provide various facilities and eventsthat were enjoyed by previous generations, which we have seen eroded over the years. The Sports Pavilion provides an excellent base for which a lot of these can be facilitated from, where the instalation of these lights, extending this even further. Recent years have seen Dalry Community Sports Club, and in partnership with others, facilitate a number of events and activities here, including, Parklives, Party in the Park, Skirt the Skeith, Menshed, Sheshed, Dr Bike, School Sports Day, Puppy Training, Craft Event, Kids Football, Orienteering, King's Coronation, Queen's Jubilee. We recently seen the installation of 10 solar lights in the park, which lights the footpath from the carpark to the pavilion, which DCSC secured funding for, where we would now see this being complemented by the old floodlights being brought back into use, which overall gives us a facility that can be better accessed over the winter period / dark nights, with opportunities to use both the inside and outside areas of the pavilion for activities and events. We have seen the benefits that this has offered the community of Dalry and the surrounding areas to date, and are kean to continue to build on this.
Permissions : as part of our solar lighting of the park project, Gary Wilson ( Manager ( Lighting & Municipalisation ) / Roads - Engineering Services), gave Dalry Community S[ports Club consent to use our own contractors to bring the floodlights back into operation as appropriate.
Estimated cost - see attached quote for breakback of costs
Location: The regeneration of the pavilion has now provided us with an excellent base within Dalry Public Park to provide, develop and expand our activities and initiatives, and further increase our opportunities to both support and work in partnership with other groups. We see the increased opportunities that additional floodlighting would offer, in opening up the additional outdoor recreational space, and the benefits this would bring to our community. Our previous initiatives, like Parklives, have demonstrated the importance of providing opportunities to build community cohesion, tackle childhood obesity and address food poverty. Additional lighting will – 1. Enhance the opportunity to bring our community together 2. Help facilitate community engagement and social cohesion 3. Help improve and enhance both physical and mental health and wellbeing 4. Provide additional multi – use outdoor space for individuals, community groups and organisations to utilise for a variety of sports, leisure ad social activities 5. Help grassroot sports organisations 6. Help events like Parklives with both social isolation and food deprivation issues within our community The floodlight area has an excellent location within Dalry Public Park, where the variety of activities will help enhance the feeling of community that was enjoyed by previous generations within the park, and will be an excellent building block to assist in expanding this. We recognise the many health and wellbeing benefits that come with encouraging activities back into the public park, and in wide open spaces, and has been particularly encouraged throughout and since the COVID-19 pandemic by the UK and Scottish Governments.
Proposed on behalf of: Dalry Community Sports Club
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