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A multi-disciplinary construction consultancy is celebrating a significant milestone in the regeneration of a cliff top park on the North Norfolk coast.

Daniel Connal Partnership (DCP), who have offices in Norwich, Colchester and London, is working with Suffolk-based AREA Landscape Architects and the Friends of North Lodge Park (FoNLP) on the £190,000 revamp of a Cromer park which had its planning application approved this week.

Robert Dale, senior partner of DCP, said: “We are thrilled to be involved in this exciting community project and to have received planning permission is a significant and encouraging milestone.

“The project, in collaboration with North Norfolk District Council, has received significant support from the local community who hold the park close to their hearts.”

The makeover at North Lodge Park will see the replacement of the existing bridge and the construction of a 60m ramped zig-zag walkway which will connect the main area of the Park with an inaccessible and neglected lawn. The wheelchair accessible bridge will incorporate a viewing platform, seating and play elements.

The materials and appearance of the playbridge have been cleverly designed to harmonise with existing features of the town.  The timber boardwalk reflects Cromer’s wooden pier, the zig-zagging of the bridge echoes the paths down to the beach from the cliff tops along Cromer’s seafront and the thick rope handrails and use of buoys in the design acknowledge the town’s fishing heritage.

Samantha Annison, chair of the Friends of North Lodge Park, said, “We’re really pleased to see practical progress in our plans to bring the upper lawn into the park.  This is an exciting project, in collaboration with NNDC, responding to the community wishes for the park”.

DCP are supporting FoNLP on the innovative scheme, designed by AREA Landscape Architects, with project management and surveying services.

The park is celebrating its 90^th anniversary this year, and it is planned that construction might commence as part of the celebrations.

Established in 1946, Daniel Connal Partnership offers a wide range of specialist construction skills to clients, large and small, across all sectors of the market and throughout the UK.

For more information, please visit: https://www.danielconnal.co.uk/