Parks for people  

Public parks and gardens bring huge benefits to modern city communities. Our work has helped restore formal gardens and introduced heritage trails to country parks, helping more people actively enjoy the outdoors, and to appreciate and understand the heritage of our parks and gardens.

Worth Park / Wat Tyler Country Park / Great Comp Garden

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Our funding and project management expertise helped restore, transform and re-energise Crawley’s Worth Park to create a strong and vibrant heritage feature park for the region and further developing a sense of place and pride for local communities.

Extensive works have repaired and restored key listed features across the whole park, returning the complete landscape to its splendid Victorian origins. A Grade II listed building was refurbished to provide amenity improvements including a community room, refurbished WCs, lighting, additional CCTV and informal play space.

Working alongside our community partners a brand new creative Participation Project is being delivered to engage people in new ways of learning and involvement in the heritage.

Glevum successfully project managed the Development and Delivery Stage. The restored park was officially opened in July 2015.

Wat Tyler Country Park sits on the 125 acre site of an ex-industrial explosives factory. It’s now a popular green space visitor attraction with more than 350,000 visitors a year.

The £7.2m Wat Tyler development project included two new visitor centres, extensive landscaping improvements, a new education centre and improved facilities, and an extensive volunteering/training/adult education programme.        

Glevum project managed the scheme, delivered on-time and within budget in June 2012. Glevum successfully integrated with Basildon Council’s open spaces, property, legal and finance departments to ensure the smooth delivery of the scheme. We also ensured over £300,000 of in-kind volunteer time was delivered as an integral part of the project.

Great Comp Garden, near Sevenoaks, has built up an enviable reputation over the years as being one of Kent’s finest gardens to visit.

The garden showcasing 7 acres of beautiful and rare plants surrounds a 17th century manor house.  This hidden gem of a garden is home to an Italian Garden, romantic ruins, enchanting woodland walks.

Glevum have been appointed as Development Consultants and have recently delivered a NLHF funded Resilient project. Glevum are committed to the long term with the Trustees and staff in ensure that the site has a long term and sustainable future.