Change of Heart to keep people on the right path

ANOTHER SECTION CLOSED TO PROTECT GRASSY AREAS FROM BEING TRAMPLED BY PEDESTRIANS

- By OLIVER PRIDMORE

NOTTINGHAM City Council is shutting off another part of the Green Heart park to protect the area while a major NHS centre is built.

The authority says that "lawned and soft-landscaped areas" within the park in Broad Marsh have been walked across in the past few weeks as people divert to avoid a closure already in place.

A further closure has now been announced, starting later this week, which will see pedestrians having to divert even further.

The Green Heart opened in September 2024 and there are three paths running through it, taking cyclists and pedestrians from Lister Gate on to Collin Street.

The council confirmed in July that a section of one of those paths was being closed off as demolition work began to make way for the NHS site.

The path affected is the one nearest to the former shopping centre, with people still able to use most of the route before diverting down the central pathway.

The council now says that the top of the central pathway will be closed off as well and that pedestrians will now have to walk around the edge of the Green Heart to get through.