Neighbours come together to promote safer streets and community garden for everyone
In Sparkford, LiveWest residents have worked alongside our community connector to help reduce cars speeding in their neighbourhood – especially for the children who regularly play outside on the green space.
The mums of the development who are concerned about the speed of vehicles have encouraged the local residents to get creative and design eye-catching ‘slow down’ signs for the community.
A LiveWest resident and mum to one of the children who play outside with her friends, said: “We all got together as all our children play together on this green bit out the front and cars sometimes go a little bit fast.
“This project helps with our children so they can still play outside together and the traffic can be a bit slower coming around here too.
“It’s great that LiveWest has supported us... I think this it’s a good thing for LiveWest and for us because it brings us together in the community and it gets LiveWest involved. We can all come together.
“Since we’ve started this, we’ve had LiveWest come here, Shona especially, and we all get on great. It’s lovely to see you all here. We do all our events here too.
“All the kids have a picture on them (the slow down signs) and they’re really happy.”
As well as their efforts to improve road safety, the residents have also created a beautiful community garden for everyone to enjoy.
Filled with plants and fresh vegetables, the garden brings together lots of residents at the development as they share its produce and take turns looking after the space.
Our resident shares the positive difference this garden has made in bringing the community together. She said:
“It was a case where we all moved in at the same time together and we all got on really well, including the people who have bought a house and rent from LiveWest.
“We saw this patch was barren and we all wanted to do something with it, so we all got together. We then started raising money and the rest of the neighbours got involved.
“When we have a little bit of fruit or veg, we put it out on the side for people to have.
“This year we decided to do some flowers in one and some potatoes, onions and runner beans in the other... it’s all to help each other and bring us together.”
Together, these projects show how community-led projects can make such a positive difference to our communities.
