EastSide Greenways
The Connswater Community Greenway provides 9km of greenway in East Belfast and a high quality, free and open space for the community to engage with urban green space through recreation, active travel, and other activities. Since completion of the Greenway in 2017, EastSide Greenways have continued to engage with our stakeholders to identify areas for further improvement and intervention.
At the heart of Orangefield Park, along the Connswater Community Greenway, stands the bowling pavilion, once a lively community and social centre as well as the base for the local bowling club. It is now underused, considered an eyesore by many, and widely seen as a missed opportunity to improve the park and offer better services for the community. The GroundsWell Innovation Fund supported EastSide Greenways in working with local people, user groups and politicians to evaluate how it could be brought back into community use.
Briefing paper: Asset-based development and community health
In this briefing paper, we explore how an asset-based approach to local development can help to deliver health and social outcomes for users and surrounding neighbourhoods
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Briefing paper: Community anchor organisations and urban green and blue space
In this briefing paper, we discuss how anchor organisations (such as EastSide Partnership) can play a role in the governance of urban green and blue spaces to deliver health and related socio-economic outcomes
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Video
Hear from the residents
In this video, we speak to local residents and users of Orangefield Park, to explore what the space means to them and the wider community
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