Belle Vale Park is a small family park in the Belle Vale area of Liverpool. The park is also home to the Lee Valley Millennium Centre
Belle Vale Park is the only public open space in Belle Vale, providing a valuable setting for a range of recreational and cultural facilities for local residents. Areas of grassland with stands of mature trees, a children’s play area, multi use game court and informal football and tennis provision, are surrounded by the local shopping centre, supermarket, fast food outlet, and the Millennium centre. To develop the educational and recreational links between the community and the park grounds maintenance and Parks teams are working on projects with the community to enhance and promote Belle Vale Park with the addition of horticultural features, an ecological wetland area, and, the development of a woodland understory.
It was recently awarded a Green Flag Award for the quality and management of the park.
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