[3] Some residents have commented on the positive role the park played during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing a place for them to meet neighbours at an outdoor focal point and for new arrivals to settle in to the area.

[1] Local residents have commended the park, even though it is small, for its open space, biodiversity and for allowing an area for people to enjoy nature in a city centre environment.

[3] A number of arthropods, animals and plants are found in the park, including quercus robur, fuchsia, aphids, honey bees, bumblebees, hoverflies, passiflora edulis, millipedes, centipedes, woodlice, jacobaea vulgaris, plantago lanceolata as well as two-spot, ten-spot and 22-spot ladybirds.

[4] In 2022 the community applied to DCC for funding to replace the original play elements built from native oak in 2016, which had begun to rot.

A children's book exchange shelf was built and 30 weather resistant portraits that the community painted of each other were hung in the park.