Last updated: October 2021
In 2017, the Sintra City Council opened a new urban park in the quarter of Cavaleira, with 25 thousand square meters that are inserted in urbanization where about 5 thousand people live. The park has zones of stay and of leisure, circuits of exercise for adults and seniors, children's green playground, pedestrian routes, canine park and the entire park has a green turf cover. The design of the park, an investment of around 600 thousand euros, counted on the active participation of the population through ideas for the final project. (ref.2)
Opening of Cavaleira Park
Source: http://sintranoticias.pt/2017/04/25/basilio-horta-inaugura-parque-urbano-da-cavaleira
Overview
Nature-based solution
- Grey infrastructure featuring greens
- Green playgrounds and school grounds
- Parks and urban forests
- Pocket parks/neighbourhood green spaces
- Green areas for water management
- Sustainable urban drainage systems
Key challenges
- Water management (SDG 6)
- Stormwater and rainfall management and storage
- Green space, habitats and biodiversity (SDG 15)
- Green space creation and/or management
- Social justice, cohesion and equity (SDG 10)
- Social interaction
- Health and well-being (SDG 3)
- Enabling opportunities for physical activity
- Creation of opportunities for recreation
- Cultural heritage and cultural diversity
- Protection of historic and cultural landscape/infrastructure
Focus
Creation of new green areas
Project objectives
1) Create a new centrality in an area, until then, without spaces of leisure for the population, with the purpose of returning the public space to the citizens. (ref.3)
2) Implement a new green area with grass and other green covers;
3) Create leisure and recreational areas with circuits of exercise for adults and seniors, children's green playground, pedestrian routes, canine park and the entire park has a green turf cover. (ref.2)
4) To return the public space to the residents. (1)
5) To value and improve the daily lives of all who live and work in the municipality of Sintra. (2)
6) This intervention aims to harmoniously consolidate the space as a whole, using the green as a connecting element (characteristic vegetation recreating, thus, the natural and cultural landscape of Sintra) and efforts on the diversity of equipment (ref.4)
Implementation activities
Work was being carried out on the installation of irrigation networks, lighting networks, as well as the delimitation of leisure spaces provided for in the project (3)
Main beneficiaries
- Citizens or community groups
- Marginalized groups: Elderly people
- Young people and children
Governance
Management set-up
- Government-led
Type of initiating organisation
- Local government/municipality
Participatory approaches/ community involvement
- Co-planning (e.g. stakeholder workshops, focus groups, participatory mapping)
- Crowd-sourcing/Crowd-funding/Participatory budget
Details on the roles of the organisations involved in the project
This was a projects that counted on the active participation of the population through ideas for the project to create the park, an initiative that gained a new momentum, (ref.3)
Project implemented in response to ...
... an EU policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a national policy or strategy?
Unknown
... a local policy or strategy?
Yes
(PDM Regulation - Municipal Master Plan (Regulamento do PDM - Plano Director Municipal) (ref.5))
Financing
Total cost
€500,000 - €2,000,000
Source(s) of funding
- Public local authority budget
Type of funding
- Earmarked public budget
Non-financial contribution
Unknown
Impacts and Monitoring
Environmental impacts
- Green space and habitat
- Increased green space area
Economic impacts
- Unknown
Socio-cultural impacts
- Social justice and cohesion
- Improved access to urban green space
- Increased involvement of locals in the management of green spaces
Type of reported impacts
Expected impacts, Achieved impacts
Presence of formal monitoring system
Unknown
Presence of indicators used in reporting
No evidence in public records
Presence of monitoring/ evaluation reports
No evidence in public records
Availability of a web-based monitoring tool
No evidence in public records
References
(1) Câmara Munic. Sintra (2017) Parque Urbano da Cavaleira será inaugurado em breve, Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020).
(2) Câmara Munic. Sintra (2017) Parque Urbano da Cavaleira inaugurado esta terça-feira Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020).
(3) SintraNotiocias (2017), Basílio Horta inaugurou Parque Urbano da Cavaleira, Available at Source link (22-6-2020)
(4) Jornal da Regiao (2017), Começaram as obras do novo Parque Urbano da Cavaleira, no Algueirão, Available at Source link (Accessed 4-8-2020)
(5) PDM Regulation - Municipal Master Plan (Website not available in 2020)
(2) Câmara Munic. Sintra (2017) Parque Urbano da Cavaleira inaugurado esta terça-feira Available at Source link (Accessed 22-6-2020).
(3) SintraNotiocias (2017), Basílio Horta inaugurou Parque Urbano da Cavaleira, Available at Source link (22-6-2020)
(4) Jornal da Regiao (2017), Começaram as obras do novo Parque Urbano da Cavaleira, no Algueirão, Available at Source link (Accessed 4-8-2020)
(5) PDM Regulation - Municipal Master Plan (Website not available in 2020)
Opening of Cavaleira Park
Source: http://sintranoticias.pt/2017/04/25/basilio-horta-inaugura-parque-urbano-da-cavaleira
Opening of Cavaleira Park
Source: http://sintranoticias.pt/2017/04/25/basilio-horta-inaugura-parque-urbano-da-cavaleira