Parks & Open Spaces

Improvement plans for Maidstone parks

Since 2005 Maidstone Borough Council has been carrying out a programme of capital improvements to its parks and open spaces. The programme includes work on the general infrastructure: paths, seats, bins, gates, fences, tennis courts, car parks etc, as well as the play areas and the vegetation.

Already on some of the sites, play areas have been refurbished and summer meadows add interest to large open swathes of grass. The resurfacing of tennis courts and of some of the car parks, and planting of trees, will follow in the next phase. As the work progresses, updates will appear on our website.

In 2006 the Council adopted management plans, containing lists of planned improvements for the main green spaces:

Allington Open Space Management Plan;

Archbishops' Palace Gardens Management Plan;

Barming Heath Recreation Ground Management Plan;

Brenchley Gardens Management Plan;

Clare Park Management Plan;

Cobtree Manor Rural Park Management Plan;

Cornwallis Park Management Plan;

Dickens Road Recreation Area Management Plan;

Gatland Lane Recreation Ground Management Plan;

Giddyhorn Lane Recreation Ground Management Plan;

Len Valley Conservation Area Management Plan;