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Nearly 100 trees, planters, and illuminated pathways - inside the plans for Oldham's brand new public park

Council bosses have revealed what a brand new six-acre public park in Oldham could look like if plans are given the go-ahead.

The local authority is planning to build 'Jubilee Park' on land due to be made vacant after the current Tommyfield Market building is demolished.

It forms part of a wider regeneration project for the town, which is also seeing the revamp of Spindles Shopping Centre, and the creation of a new indoor market, and the intention to build thousands of new homes in the centre.

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The new Jubilee Park will also be created on land occupied by the former Oldham Sports Centre in Lord Street.

A planning application has now been lodged by the local authority to convert the Rock Street car park into an area of public open space.

Currently it is being used as a 65-space car park, but would become the south-eastern part of the new Jubilee Park.

Landscaping proposals include retaining the existing trees, as well as ‘woodland glade’ planting, ‘heather terrace’ planting and new grasses, lawns, and 85 new trees.

Pathways will be illuminated through bollards and lighting columns to ‘improve the sense of safety’, the application states.

In the south-east of the site a two-way cycle lane would be create linking Rock Street to St Mary’s Way, which would incorporate into the proposed cyclops junction on St Mary’s Way.

In July, the authority announced it was to enter into a 15 year partnership with ‘placemaker’ company Muse to progress development of ‘strategic’ residential sites and infrastructure along with the council, including the new public park.

The homes would be a mix of tenures, including social housing, apartments and built using

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