BRIDPORT'S Millennium Green trustees are looking to the future - and want residents to do the same.

The trustees have come up with a five-yer plan for the public open space and are consulting residents on their ideas.

The Green consists of Mountfield Gardens around Bridport Town Council Offices nd the connecting wood and meadow on Coneygar Hill.

This is owned by the trust and is responsible for planning improvements and raising funds to achieve them, while the town council currently has day to day responsibility for maintenance.

Trustee Paul Bennett said: "The aim is to provide open access for the public and enhance the area as much as possible.

"The big challenge this last winter was the very wet and muddy footpath through the woodland, so it’s a major feature for improvement in the plan.”

Other improvements include refurbishing the raised beds in Mountfield, rebuilding the wall entrance to the woodland and meadow from Mountfield, creating a woodland edge, increasing the range of grasses and species in the meadow, making a shallower sloping path at the northern entrance to the meadow and tree planting and thinning in the wood.

Trustees will have the plans in Bucky Doo Square on Saturday morning (June 11) at the Queen's tea party celebrations at Mountfield from 3pm on Sunday (June 12), at the trust's open agm in Mountfield 7pm on16th June and the Bridport Food Festival.

Mr Bennett added: "We need public feedback and comments on the proposals. The area is a wonderful facility providing open space and access to the countryside in the middle of the town.”

It was in 1999 when Bridport Town Council was granted £83,373 by the Countryside Agency to set up of a Millennium Green.

The Green was opened by HRH The Duchess of Gloucester in 2001.

Later it became one of the Queen Elizabeth II Fields in Trust.

Led by the Duke of Cambridge, Fields in Trust’s Queen Elizabeth II Fields Challenge now protects almost 1,500 open spaces as a tangible legacy from HM The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee year.