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Category: Windmill Park Project

  • Tree Removal In Saintfield Community Park

    Over the coming weeks you may notice some work being carried out to the buildings in the Saintfield Community Park site.  The former windmill, flour mill, and miller’s cottage are of great historical importance, and are in fact on a Scheduled Monument site.  This means that the utmost care must be taken to protect and […]

  • The Saintfield Windmill

    You may be aware that the Saintfield Development Association is in the lengthy process of developing the windmill field (adjoining the community centre) as a community park.  This facility will provide a much-needed safe space for the people of Saintfield and environs to relax, exercise, socialise and enjoy the fresh air.  At the same time, […]

  • LETTER TO SAINTFIELD CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SPORTS CLUBS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS

    LETTER TO SAINTFIELD CHURCHES, SCHOOLS, SPORTS CLUBS AND COMMUNITY GROUPS For over ten years the need for a community park in Saintfield has been identified through previous public consultations.  Since 2012 SDA has been working to realise this ambition with the local Council and other agencies.  Initially the challenges included finding a good site and raising […]

  • Survey To Discover Your Ideas For The Community Park

    Please complete this short survey which will help us to gather your views on how the Windmill Community Park could best be utilised for the benefit of the local population and visitors from further afield. https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/15EO4K/

  • Proposed Windmill Community Park, Saintfield

    PROPOSED WINDMILL COMMUNITY PARK, SAINTFIELD   INTRODUCTION Saintfield Development Association (SDA), with the generous financial help of David Moffett, has purchased the windmill field in Saintfield. The field is adjacent to, and east of, the new community centre and abounds Windmill Grange, Windmill Road and Millpond Business Park. It is currently in agricultural use. SDA’s […]

  • The Windmill Field – The Next Steps

    There have been nearly eighty comments in response to the recent PowerPoint consultation on the proposals for the development of a community heritage park in the windmill field in Saintfield. The great majority of these are positive and welcoming of a much-needed shared outdoor space in Saintfield. We believe that this response indicates the excitement […]

  • Summary Of The Windmill Field Consultation Responses

    The SDA staged two consultations over the last two months to engage with residents of Saintfield on the proposed community heritage park at the Windmill Field, adjacent to the Saintfield Community Centre.  Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the survey was conducted through a PowerPoint presentation via electronic media.  There was an excellent response to the survey […]

  • The Windmill Field Community Park Project – Send Feedback

    Follow the link below to download the consultation presentation for the Windmill Field Community Park project. It gives background and proposals for the development of the facility. CONSULTATION PRESENTATION If you are resident in Saintfield or environs, we would appreciate your feedback as detailed at the end of the presentation.