Prestwich Forest Park is the collective name for a group of publically-owned sites being developed for informal recreation in and around the Irwell Valley in Prestwich. It includes:
As a development of their Newlands 1 LIVIA project on the Salford side of the river, the Forestry Commission are taking on the management of several sites in Bury. It could be that LIVIA will become the core of the proposed Croal Irwell Regional Park . This is even more likely if links with Clifton Country Park and the proposed Newlands 2 site of Rhodes Farm are improved.
Philips Park is also a Local Nature Reserve, containing the renovated Philips Park Barn, home of the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, which has been established as a major environmental education and countryside centre serving the whole borough.
