Work to refurbish Cavendish Green has finished after a major investment by the Parish Council.

The park next to Bexley Walk in Park South has been given a £24,000 makeover after South Swindon Parish Council agreed plans to improve the area and make it easier to maintain.

The refurbishment included removing all the raised shrub beds, as well as the rotting wooden railway sleeper walls and the large stone boulders. The stone circle in the middle of the park has been filled in with a hard, resin and in the centre two Amelanchier trees will be planted among some bark.

Councillor Janine Howarth, vice chair of South Swindon Parish Council, said: "It's absolutely fantastic to see it all completed because the people in this area and especially the houses that face on to it have been for years saying they're fed up of looking at the park that was never been maintained properly.

"People at the shops used to used it regularly as a walk through from the estate to the Co-Op but they stopped using it because it was just such a mess.

"It you want people to love the community they are in you've got to make the community area surrounding it loved as well."

Councillor for Walcot and Park North Steve Allsopp added: "It's good to see it all come together. It was a mess and now we've clean it up.

"The trouble was it hadn't been maintained, but now we have brought the space back to life and it should be a nice place for the community to enjoy."