Ury Riverside Park

Ury Riverside Park is a 61ha community park for people and wildlife to enjoy together. The Park is being developed by the community for the community from a former barley field to create somewhere special for wildlife and people. A great place to walk, jog or watch wildlife.

The Ury Riverside Park has been developing over the last 8 years from former arable farmland on the flood plain of the River Ury in the heart of Inverurie.

A group of local people came together to form a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) to take on the development of the park in collaboration with Aberdeenshire Council who currently own the land. It is planned that the SCIO will take on the ownership/long lease of the land through a Community Asset Transfer soon.

The park is being developed with a high-quality path network, areas of semi natural wetland, riparian habitats, new native woodlands, wildflower meadows and amenity grassland. An all abilities play area and a local granite feature entrance is planned. Most of the park lies below the 200-year flood level and much of the park floods every year. This has to be taken account of for all the site works.

The SCIO has had to source the funding to design and deliver all the site works. To date this has been a mix including Developer Obligations, EU Leader, Scottish Forestry Grants, National Lottery Awards for All and Inverurie Community Council and Inverurie faith groups. The most important element of the development of the park is the community engagement and volunteering commitment of the local people.