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Everything in the Garden is Rosy at Mount View Lodge
Sheffield Homes staff have donned their gardening gloves and dug in to help fulfil the wishes of residents of Mount View Lodge Sheltered Scheme, Norton Lees, who have been keen to develop their outdoor garden areas.
The work has been carried out by the Sheffield Homes Stewardship Team along with Sheffield City Council’s Street Force. Since it started in 1998 around 2,000 learners have been through the City Stewardship programme, which was set up as a partnership between Community Training Services (CTS), Sheffield Homes and Kier Sheffield. The partnership not only provides a much needed learning opportunity for teenagers, but also contributes significantly towards keeping Sheffield a more attractive, safer city to live in. Sheffield Homes Estate Officers have also put a lot of effort into this project and will be on hand to make life easier for the tenants by helping with the more difficult tasks in the garden.
The garden now boasts an outdoor patio area with picnic bench, tarmac pathways, new shrub beds and additional raised planters which the tenants have planted up themselves with various plants and roses kindly donated by the son of one of the residents. Three trees planted in the garden last year are also developing well. The tenants haven’t been sat on their laurels either. They’ve been working hard raising money to help towards the purchase of a gazebo or canopy which is the next item on their garden wish list!
Sheffield Homes Sheltered Housing Manager Rhian Owen said, “Mount view is one of many of our schemes to undergo this level of replanting and will hopefully encourage tenants to remain active and enhance their quality of life. We wish our residents many happy days in their garden."
Mount View Lodge resident Rose Moorhouse added, “We are thrilled with our garden makeover. When I first moved to Mount View one of the things I did miss was my garden, but now I have a beautiful garden to sit out in with my neighbours on a sunny day with a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. I must admit I’ve got green fingers so I’ll enjoy planting up the flowerbeds and keeping them looking their best.”