Harworth to create 20-acre Waverley park

Built on the former Orgreave Colliery site, Highwall Park is in the final stages of development with Rotherham-based Sky High appointed on the landscaping.

Harworth worked alongside advisors Sheffield Hallam University and landscape designers PWP on the scheme, and consulted Waverley residents on the designs.

So-named as a nod to the site’s coal mining history, Highwall Park will feature trees, foliage, ponds, footpaths for walking, running, and cycling, picnic areas, and sport and play spaces.

The park will run through the centre of Waverley, a community with more than 1,800 homes, a primary school, Olive Lane high street, and the Advanced Manufacturing Park, all of which was master-planned by Harworth.

The brownfield land has been prepared and now the park will be delivered in three phases, with phase one set to open later this year.

Elsewhere at Waverley, a newly-built GP surgery is set to open this summer and following an extension to the building, the local primary school Waverley Junior Academy will welcome additional pupils from this September.

Peter Massie, national director of development and residential sector lead at Harworth, said: “Our vision for Waverley has always included a vibrant green space at the heart of the development where those living and working here can come together to socialise, exercise and enjoy the great outdoors and local wildlife.”

Luke Hammill, managing director at Sky High Trees & Grounds Maintenance Services, said: “As a local business, we are proud to be playing a role in the creation of Waverley, and it is excellent to be delivering such a brilliant new space for the community.”