Parks in Bristol are set benefit from a £100m cash injection by the city council.

Final approval for the funding will be decided at a city council cabinet meeting in February and if agreed, the proposed Parks and Green Space Strategy will aim to bring the city’s parks up to the highest possible standard over the next 20 years.

Under the proposals, over half of the capital investment in new and improved facilities would come from existing council budgets; section 106 planning agreements and special grants, including lottery funding.

The rest would be raised through the sale of land with low recreational value – with 70 per cent of all money generated in this way being reinvested back into parks.

The remaining 30per cent would be used to support capital projects across the city, such as improved schools; housing; public transport and other leisure facilities.

The revised strategy due to be presented to councillors now projects that only about 90 acres of this marginal, surplus land - representing just 2.4% of all public open space in the city - might be re-used in this way.

Cllr Rosalie Walker, Executive Member for Leisure and Health, said: “This proposed strategy has always been about protecting and improving our parks.

“Its aim is to deliver the investment needed from a range of sources to do just that over the next 20 years – and provide the essential funding that will be needed to repair and replace those improvements in the years to come.”