Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre Earnse Bay Outdoor Centre What You Have Told Us So Far The Site Characteristics Constraints and Opportunities for the Site What We Would Like To Do Getting The Community Involved Page | 59 Duddon Estuary Ramsar, Morecambe Bay Ramsar & North Walney National Nature Reserve Average Cloudy, sunny, and Maximum Green Spaces temperatures and precipitation days temperatures 42m The aim of this project is to deliver access to A starting point to the A large number of green spaces in Barrow precipitation The Furness Peninsula boasts a protected are playing fields. The scale and functional Nature Reserve. purpose of playing fields and the high level outdoor activities and skills development through of maintenance involved in supporting their coastline, four designated Sites of Special 156m use mean that they contribute a strong 242m an Outdoor Centre at Earnse Bay, on Walney Scientific Interest, sand dunes and beaches and sense of openness with either a tranquil or 200m active character when used. They Page | 58 an array of wildlife of national and international do however have a low value in terms of Duddon Estuary SSSI & South Walney and Piel Channel Flats SSSI 33,333m² Precipitation Wind speed Wind rose Island. biodiversity with the exception of those sites amounts significance. Access to the beach via sharing a boundary with another Green the slip. Infrastructure asset or open countryside. To form the landscapes, we could collect 145m You could set up a community garden, like at Ford Park rubbish and put them into gabions. 42m in Ulverston (left), or Grow West in Aspatria (above). Barrow was ranked top in the RSA Heritage Green spaces have an important role in This will lead into the following outcomes: the development of new sites. The location 145m Natural England already organise litter picks Food grown on your site could be sold in local cafés for open amenity space can be provided to North Walney Nature Reserve - perhaps Index for natural assets per head of population. The site is the size of about seven average sized football pitches. Wind comes from the south west; and has sunlight all day long. More than half of the boundary of the site is bounded by homes. The site is about 200m from the sea. View 08 The only view of the sea from the site is from the western edge, overlooking an expanse of tarmac in the underused car park; the entrance to West Shore Park; and the road to the viewing point (Growing Well in Kendal sells its produce to restaurants), in viable and focal locations where it will and bus turning they could give us their rubbish? THE SITE Page | 55 or distributed among local families. be most used and best contribute to the Appendix 1 – Maps showing designated sites identity and setting of developments. Morecambe Bay and Duddon Estuary pSPA We could leave gabions at schools and • Families in the community will have improved Anyone, young or old, could get involved; and its a great The borough is a wildlife haven. South Walney ask local school children to fill them with Coastal path to way to look after mental health. It is vital in designing new Green Spaces Walney North Nature Reserve 16 rubbish. When full, we could come and Nature Reserve is home to grey seals, Europe’s that they are designed to prevent negative accessibility to services collect the gabions and build walls one southernmost colony of breeding Eider Duck, consequences arising from open space as block at a time. much as they are about maintaining or creating positive landscapes. This way, children can begin to get an while its colonies of Herring and Black-back Gull A point on the coastal walk for a break. understanding of how much waster we Page | 57 • People will have improved accessibility are of national importance. Schools Consultations Duddon Estuary SPA & Morecambe Bay SPA create. Many local school pupils have provided amazing drawings, paintings, and videos. to green and open spaces and the Walney is also the only place in the world Some have given a presentation that explains many of their ideas. Going forward, wider natural environment where you will find the flowering Geranium for the rest of the design process, we propose to have a focus group of pupils The north and the west edges have wild bramble borders. View 09 Plants have established themselves, and new plants are succeeding them. There are lots of birds, and flowers. Boggy patches after heavy rainfall. We saw fox cubs! Create a new public space on the sea front sanguineum var. striatum - otherwise known as that will continue to input their ideas and discuss ours. We also hope that they will the Walney Geranium. contribute to the community projects we are proposing, as well as developing their own contributions. 14 This house (above) in New Zealand was Aerial of Furness Peninsula showing the site; inset diagrams showing Special Protection Areas, Ramsars, and Sites of Special Scientific Interest 09 made using rammed earth. It might be Community Resilience Hubs • Art garden At this project in Auckland, New Zealand, possible to use the red sandstone on Community Resilience Hubs are being • Urban farm West Shore Park Retirement Park the playground was on a steep site and Walney, which is high in clay content, to developed to be at the heart of our • Facilities for disabled / accessible 15 needed levelling off; so the soil for the make parts of the community building . playground was stabilised using car tyres communities where families of all ages tracks outside for wheelchairs / 11 Slip to access beach from the car garage next door. The owners of the house had ‘rammed throughout their whole life can access accessibility to the beach earth parties’ - they would invite friends, support in a way that works for them. • Camping facilities / camping pods To create the slopes over the community neighbours, school children, and anybody / overnight camping-help with building, we could use ‘earth ship’ they could, round to help them make the We want our hubs to be an open, accessible awards e.g. Duke of Edinburgh technology. rammed earth walls. Now they have taught others to build their own rammed earth and friendly space that is developed with • Flexible spaces / multi-functional The whole site is bounded by inhospitable fencing. View 10 View across fencing and site to West Shore Park. View 11 A gate connects to West Shore Park to the north. Some photos of access paths to beach fronts. There are already situations like this on Walney. This is Riley’s Fish Shack in Tynemouth. It is very popular, in all weathers. Maybe a permanent home for the Kite Surfing Club Local garages and scrap yards could donate walls for use in their gardens, at businesses, our residents in mind through listening and building for community use / their old tyres to us so that we can stack and so on. responding to their needs where they live. hire, storage, open space Bus Stop them, and fill them with soil. 12 08 We will have different agencies and partners • Strong WIFI connection including The site was used as a series An opportunity to link the site with the sea in the hubs to provide support and activities for outdoor spaces of playing fields with ideas such as but not limited to: • Kitchen space to support families with healthy eating The UK needs millions more trees to reach • Residents are supported and get • Bike stands lots, storage, and maintenance Barrow Borough Council Parking its 2050 carbon net-zero target. And we access to basic needs/supplies centre / bike loan / hire service Cows Tarn Lane want to plant lots of new trees at our site. • Places where friends and families can • Stations for measuring pollution Charities such as The Woodland Trust come together and support each other • Outside shelter for school parties donate trees to schools and community 06 The old changing rooms • Growing and cooking food activities • Safe place for BBQs groups, and teach them how to plant them • Well-being and exercise activities • Seagull proof litter bins / proper 02 successfully. Maybe we could get them to Coastal path to • Free WIFI and use of computers to enable bin facilities - for recycling too 13 come along and teach volunteers how to Walney South Nature Reserve etc. homework clubs, skills development, CV • Shower rooms / facilities / lockers / There are existing buildings and facilities on the site and adjacent View 12 Existing WC block in car park. View 13 Existing changing rooms no longer in use. plant new trees? to it. These could be refurbished, remodelled and reused. writing and employment opportunities toilets / changing Rooms - changing 04 Maybe school children could have a go at These pictures show a recycling centre NORTH • Access both physical and places for people with all abilities 10 planting their own seeds now and looking Kamikatsu, in Japan. The town of Kamikatsu WALNEY virtual meeting facilities • Bird watching facilities WestWest Shore Shore Road Road 05 after them until it is time to plant them has set itself a target of becoming a ‘zero- 01 Solway Drive NATURE • Wildlife trails-signs with key information RESERVE outside? waste’ town. Currently residents of the town Furness Golf Club collect and sort all their waste here, wash Key feedback points to date from the in the field and along the beach it, and send it for recycling or re-use. The S c a r th Map A: Key Map - Walney Island Ch North • Water quality - if caravans were an consultations for Earnse Bay: n el End Haws SITE Chapter number and title town recycles 80% of their waste, and this is 1 Jubilee Bridge to Sandy Gap (Maps 1a to 1e) 1600m 2 Sandy Gap to Jubilee Bridge (Maps 2a to 2g) A590 • Flexible spaces in the building that coming we would need to think 03 Newton cheaper than installing an incinerator.