Leeds City Council has approved measures to stop vehicles entering parts of Roundhay Park.
Planning permission has been granted for barriers, bollards, sandstone boulders and earth mounding at Soldiers Field and Connaught Field. The council said the two areas were at risk of damage from vehicles entering the fields without permission.
The proposals received strong support from people living near the Grade II-listed park.
A total of 52 comments were submitted in support of the plans, with the council saying they broadly agreed that action was needed to prevent vehicles accessing the fields. The work will include 125 sandstone boulders, seven bollards and around 900 metres of earth mounding. Five vehicle barriers will also be installed to prevent access to the two fields.
The council said the measures had been designed to fit into the existing landscape.
A planning report said: “The nature of the works are such that they will be essentially indiscernible to the casual user of the park.”
The sandstone boulders will be sourced locally, while the earth mounds will be planted with grass and wildflowers.
The council said the mounds would become less noticeable once vegetation had grown. It said: “Once the vegetation has established itself over the mounds the perception of them is likely to be negligible.”
The planning report also concluded that the measures would not harm the park’s heritage value.
“Overall it is not considered that the proposals will be harmful to heritage assets,” it said.
Roundhay Park is one of Leeds’ largest and most prominent public parks and is listed at Grade II because of its historic significance.
