A COMMUNITY group in Great Lever has transformed an area of land plagued by flytippers into a community play area and garden.

Residents in Nixon Road have turned the former dumping ground into an attractive green space.

More than £8,000 from a community grant, the Children's Fund and Bolton Council has been spent to fence off the garden and plant flowers and grass seeds on the piece of land at the bottom of the street.

Residents of all ages have helped clear up the back streets, removed graffiti and cleared rubbish left by fly tippers.

They have worked with a private landowner to clear an old railway site near Hooten Street and have helped dismantle a crumbling wall.

A fun day is benig held to officially open the play area on September 4.