Portavogie Harbour Environmental Improvement Scheme
Approx £270,000 : Funded by European Maritime Fisheries Fund (DAERA), Ards and North Down Borough Council
The new Environmental Improvement Scheme at Portavogie Harbour included the following works:
- new low-maintenance open space around the memorial
- planters and bench seating
- harbour signage, defined parking spaces, pedestrian crossing
- feature light columns and
- rendering to the existing wall
Project Outcomes:
- Enhancing and protecting an environmental asset, while encouraging appropriate economic and recreational activity
- Provision of more aesthetically pleasing area for people arriving at the Harbour from both sea and land, which will enhance a sense of community
- Provision of an inclusive, safe and pleasant place for the local community and visitors to observe, thus giving the village a heart
- Promotion of health and wellbeing and a reduction in social exclusion by providing a local space for people to meet and engage, also an increased opportunity within a rural fishing community to celebrate their maritime and aquacultural heritage
- Establishment of collaborative partnerships within the fishing community in terms of heritage
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