The development of a senior-friendly park in Taman Lip Sin is getting into its closing stage, with 93% of the works accomplished and full completion anticipated by the tip of this month.
Penang Island Metropolis Council (MBPP) councillor Chan Quickly Aun stated the RM800,000 challenge, positioned subsequent to Block 6, is a part of the council’s “Age-Pleasant Metropolis” initiative. Believed to be the primary of its form within the nation, the park goals to supply a secure and inclusive leisure area, particularly for senior residents.
Spanning 0.9 acres, the park will embrace sports activities tools, a kids’s playground, a multi-purpose plaza and different services. Surrounded by high-rise flats that home over 13,000 residents, the inexperienced area is ready to turn into a much-needed leisure spot for the group.
“This park not solely permits seniors to train and socialise, but additionally creates alternatives for household bonding. It’s a place the place residents can spend high quality time collectively and strengthen group ties,” Chan stated.
In response to security considerations, Chan assured that accessibility was a key design precedence. Pathways will characteristic gentler slopes and smoother surfaces, whereas steeper areas might be geared up with handrails for seniors’ ease of motion.
Past the park, MBPP can also be working in the direction of making Taman Lip Sin a extra pedestrian-friendly neighbourhood. Deliberate upgrades embrace safer sidewalks, improved pedestrian routes close to Lip Sin Market and hawker centres, and repainting close by flats to reinforce the residing surroundings.
“These enhancements might be applied in phases and require collaboration from the Public Works Division, the personal sector and residents themselves,” Chan added.
With the park nearing completion, residents can quickly stay up for a brand new inexperienced lung that promotes wholesome residing, group interplay and a extra senior-friendly city surroundings.
