Funding of over £3 million was approved, and works were completed between 2010 and 2012, including two lengthy new pathways, a children's play area and splash park.

[3] Facilities include tennis and basketball courts, two bowling greens (indoor and outdoor), a children's playground, a waterpark, football pitches and a flower garden.

It originally consisted of three coaches hauled by a steam locomotive named "The Empress", running over a length of 9+1⁄2 in (241 mm) gauge track, from the main park entrance at Longbridge Road to a turntable at the boating lake.

After being replaced by a sit-in diesel locomotive named "Little Nan", The Empress was eventually restored and re-gauged to 10+1⁄4 in (260 mm) and is now running at the Eastleigh Lakeside Steam Railway.

Every year on Remembrance Day (usually the 2nd Sunday in November) a commemorative ceremony is held at the war memorial preceded by music from a local marching band.