RESIDENTS of a housing estate in St Ann's are celebrating after being handed £40,000 to transform their local park.
The Brewsters Road park and play area is to be radically overhauled in the next four months.
A new park, including a "sports zone" with a multi-purpose sports court, is to be developed at the site.
The revamp will come after months of work by residents, a community group called Epic and the Metropolitan Housing Association, which owns most houses on the estate.
Louise Chance, Metropolitan's community engagement officer, said: "This is great news and has given us all a tremendous boost.
"We can now forge ahead with our plans to build a sports zone for young people as well as revitalising play areas for parents and their kids.
"If everything goes according to plan, we'll be ready to open this August.
"Our thanks to WREN and Epic but the credit for this must go to the residents who really drove this forward – it's just amazing what can be achieved when people put their minds to it."
The Brewsters Road estate was awarded the funding by landfill tax organisation Wren – which grants to community projects.
Users of the park asked Metropolitan the estate, to improve the facilities and the housing association submitted a bid for the money in October 2012.
Epic is a not-for-profit group which works with Nottingham schools helping children in disadvantaged communities.
Mick Dawber runs a football project for Epic, forming two local teams, St Ann's United and Brewsters Ballers, with both playing at the park.
He said: "They're all local kids, the vast majority live within 500 metres of the park.
"They turn up week in and week out and developing the park will be great. They've been waiting for years for this to happen – they can't wait."
Elaine Bird, spokesperson for the St Ann's North Residents' Association added: "We applaud Metropolitan's plans for the improvement of the park and hope it will become a central point for community events."
Wren's local grant manager Cheryl Raynor said: "Metropolitan put forward a good application and showed how local residents had been involved in the development of the plans, so we were delighted to fund the project."
The Brewsters Road estate is made up of 490 homes and is home to over 1,200 people.
