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Small Project Grant: Views Expressed

The Community Council is given a small grant (£3,000) each year to enhance the community. We are about to start the installation of additional CCTV equipment in the shopping centre and we are looking for the best positions for some signs for Kingswells Village.

If you have any suggestions for spending up to £6,000 before December then please use the form to provide you views.

See the suggestions made so far:

ID Suggestion
1A play park at the park near the Doctor's surgery
5sdedo something better with the money than waste it on rubbish cctv! use it on the playground lights that are never on!! so the youth of kingswells cant play football when its dark! get back to me please i have discussions on the kingswells forum thank you ;)
6Improve the access to the woods that go from the bottom of Kingswells Avenue to Gillahill
7Donate money to the school to assist in their planned modifications to the playground.
8improve the drainage and playing surface in the football pitch at Fairly Road even add goal posts
9Improve drainage and playing surface of football pitch at Fairly Road even add goal posts
10football boys club for under 13s
11

Reopen unverified path from beside School to core path29

Also Reopen unverified path from beside School to Cromar Gardens May help vey bad parking situation at school

12Christmas lights on lamp posts
13Welcome to Kingswells signs
14

How about a pictorial map of Kingswells, to be situated near the Community Centre? Many residents, and visitors are not sure how to get to Webster Park, Kingswells Church, the Village Hall, the school etc.


There is a nice example of such a map on the leaflets produced by Kingswells Church for their 150 Years celebrations.

15I think by the sounds of things it's the 13 to 17 age group that are lacking in facilities in the Kingswells area. Perhaps the money could be spent on providing something for them. A lot of them gather to play football in the school playground in the evenings which is acceptable and healthy but they get no end of trouble for doing this. This seems a shame as they are not causing any harm. A lot of other areas get terrible problems wih youths in the evenings, I think we are lucky with the majority of our lot here in Kingswells. I would rather any football club was aimed at this age group rather than the younger ones.
16I I would like to see some new equipment at the Wellside Place playpark. Also CCTV would be welcome at the park, as It is often frequented by teenagers leaving glass bottles etc around
17As a mother of an 8 year old and an 11 year old who seem to have plenty activities I would like to see some investment for their future ( and for the existing teenagers here). There is a severe lack of anything for them and I think we are lucky to date that there has not been too severe repercussions. However I feel that if we do not provide something for these kids to do then we will all suffer. I realise £6000 will not go far but perhaps it should go into a fund in the community centre to provide some entertainment for the teenage group.
18As a mother of an 8 year old and an 11 year old who seem to have plenty activities I would like to see some investment for their future ( and for the existing teenagers here). There is a severe lack of anything for them and I think we are lucky to date that there has not been too severe repercussions. However I feel that if we do not provide something for these kids to do then we will all suffer. I realise £6000 will not go far but perhaps it should go into a fund in the community centre to provide some entertainment for the teenage group.
19As Aberdeen City Council appear not to have the ability to pay for grass cutting in Kingswells this year, the grant could be used to keep the grass under control until ACC re-start, which presumably will be next spring.
20It would be great to plant a Christmas Tree to light up each year instead of using a cut one.
21Set up a Transport Management Organisation (Kingswells TMO) as they have in Dyce. This would facilitation car-sharing, free of charge, for example to work (in any direction); for weekly trips to the shops; or one-off trips to events like Murrayfield. This is great in cutting congestion; but it is also sociable and saves everyone a ton of money.
22Create a more user friendly website
23How about a Kingswells Fun Day/Gala Day? Could be based at Webster Park or the school playground and Community Centre. Bouncy castles for kids, races for all ages, outside caterers etc. Would require a fair amount of organisation but I'm sure a sub-committee could be formed?
24How about a Community Christmas Carol Concert with mulled wine, coffee etc.? A collection taken and donated to a worthwhile cause in Aberdeen?
25Organise the surface water drainage system (gully pots) to be cleared out on the smaller roads. It seems that Aberdeen Council don't have the funds to do this! Keeping the drainage system blocked isn't helping with localised flooding, and clearing them would solve a lot of problems with road maintenance, surface damage, etc.