I have just added this to the map of places to fly your drone at Drone Scene:
Land owner permission not required.
The Avenue Rec ground is the perfect place for first flights with sub-250g craft - small and managable, yet wide open and with very few hazards on the ground. Beyond a tall bank of trees there is the lake and the main strip that runs along it where most of the people and wildlife are, but if we avoid flying out of the park bounds and stay quite high we can avoid annoying residents and birds alike.
Spectacular views of the town, and lake from here, particularly at sunset, when the park is also at its quietest. If there are dogs, they are never on leads, so watch out for landings !
We do have to be quite careful about privacy here - lots of houses border the park, but I haven’t run into complaints before, and have flown it many many times.
Also there are 2 large tennis courts, which can be interesting from above if there are people playing (very easy to ask them if it’s fine beforehand to make them ‘involved people’ and thereby mitigate the ‘crowd overflight rule’)
Parking is in any adjacent road - don’t use the actual car park near to dusk or dawn; it gets locked sometimes, regardless of who is in it at the time!
The originator declared that this location was not inside a Flight Restriction Zone at the time of being flown on 30/07/2024. It remains the responsibility of any pilot to check for any changes before flying at the same location.