A Newtownards community group campaigning to turn a former railway bank that has been unoccupied for 65 years into a green space say they feel "ignored" after a lack of progress.
Pamela Shaw, founder of Branch Out Community Group, said that they have been pushing to transform the Talbot Street space into a new public garden and educational space on a two and a half-acre site.
Speaking to Belfast Live, Pamela said: "I came up with the idea of it at the start of lockdown and began thinking about it in March of 2020 - you weren't allowed to go anywhere and Ards doesn't have any green spaces. There is Londonderry Park but that is more of a sports area and then the duck pond but that is basically it.
