Cut backs: Flowering cherries chain sawed by order of the City Council 2020
England’s poor urban areas have fewest protected green spaces, analysis finds
CPRE urges ministers to promise ‘equivalent of a national park for every neighbourhood’
(from The Guardian 2nd February 2022) Link to article in text below.
The CPRE has very good point. Read more here.
The City Stadium (a.k.a. Battlefield, so-called since last century Newcastle City planners wanted to turn this precious green place in to parking for projected 'much needed' (sic) offices) qualifies.
From the article:
Local green spaces are small parcels of land, close to where people live, that are demonstrably special to their community, for reasons that can include their beauty, historic significance, recreational value, tranquility or richness of wildlife. ...
Crispin Truman, the Chief Executive of CPRE, said: "This is a solution to levelling up that has been hiding in plain sight; a planning super power in the hands of ordinary people,. All that people have to prove is they use and value the land fr it to be protected like it is a national park. ...
What might be helpful is a Council that doesn't ignore, finagle, deceive, scheme and pat itself on the back at the same time.
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