NEWS & VIEWS

Petition to Oppose Parks Sales

April 18, 2018

Knowsley MBC are pursuing the sale of of 17 of our Parks and Green spaces to developers after failing to make any provision in their Council budgets from April 2019 to cover the maintenance costs of all 161 Parks & Green Spaces within the borough.

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We strongly oppose these plans on the basis that our parks & green spaces are vital to our community and not one should be sold. Once they are gone they are gone forever and lost to our future generations.

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Knowsley MBC claim that they have no option but to sell these parks & green spaces. We disagree and see this as a clear choice not a necessity.

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The maintenance costs for our Parks & Green spaces according to Knowsley MBC's own figures is £1.3m per annum which represents a cost figure of only £6 per day per hectare to maintain. This is only 0.84% of the total budget proposals for 2018/19 and would make the service one of the most cost effective within the authority.

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There are other options available and we simply ask Knowsley MBC to look into these before proceeding with any sales.

Family March to protest Parks Sell Off

April 18, 2018

**FAMILY MARCH- NEXT SUNDAY 22ND @ 9.30AM**
The Family March is happening next Sunday from Browns Field (Prescot), Alt Park (Huyton) and Court Hey Park (Huyton). If you don't agree with Knowsley Council selling off 17 of OUR parks, then march with your community and make your voice heard.
Knowsley Council will be happy if nobody turns up, is this what you want?
Walking routes attached- Each route is approx. 30-40 minutes long, please spare us this time to save our parks!

Halewood Town Council meet to Review Conditional Surrender of their Parks to Knowsley MBC

April 18, 2018

Residents will present their petition to oppose any surrender of their Parks & Green Spaces to Knowsley MBC until the Town Council has fully consulted with the people of Halewood. Numbers are required to fully demonstrate that the Town Council must follow the views of their electorate.

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If you have not already signed the paper version of the petition then click the button below to sign the online version.

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