The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Public to have their say on Carnoustie Links garden upgrading.
Plan to use Open Legacy fund for Carnoustie Rest project
The dream of restoring a 1930s Angus garden to its former glory has gone out to public consultation.
Colourful Carnoustie was given £15,000 from the Open Legacy Fund towards the upgrade and refurbishment of the Carnoustie Rest Garden in Links Parade.
The Royal and Ancient initiative provides funding to local community groups and organisations “to support projects and programmes that will have a positive and lasting impact on the town of Carnoustie”.
In 1938 the garden was designed and laid out by James Laurie & Son from Dundee at a cost of £500. It is now looking tired and in need of an upgrade.
Steve Burke of Rococo Gardens has produced a draft plan for Colourful Carnoustie.
It has just gone on display in the town’s library, where the blueprint will remain for the next three weeks. It suggests ways of making it “a more enjoyable and eye-catching space”.
Paths and current flowerbeds would be replanted and benches painted to reflect a Carnoustie seaside/golf theme with Carnoustie High School involvement.
The entrance from Ferrier Street will contain a small boulder rock garden.
The hidden rock garden at the corner of Ferrier Street and Links Parade will also be reinstated.
There will be information boards outlining Carnoustie’s history, a “famous Carnoustie-ites” trail or statues, and sculptures.
Among the suggestions for inclusion are a clock golf layout, a Keptie Pondstyle “big’ bench”, a sensory garden, and space for Carnoustie High School pupils to design a themed flowerbed.
Alec Edwards of Colourful Carnoustie said: “One of the many benefits of staging the 2018 Open at Carnoustie was the legacy fund provided by the R&A for projects in and around Carnoustie.”
Colourful Carnoustie is a group of community-based volunteers dedicated to providing floral displays and other environmental initiatives throughout Carnoustie.
The group was established in April 2015 and currently provides and maintains all the hanging baskets and street planters throughout the central area of the town including the railway station.