The Bristol parks Forum ‘Protect our Parks’ petition calling on Bristol City Council to withdraw the current budget plan (to stop funding parks from April 2019) and work with the Parks Forum and others to develop a realistic alternative is now live on the Bristol City Council website.
Bristol City Council’s published budget proposals show that they will stop funding our parks from April 2019, relying instead on revenue generated from parks events and other outside sources. Bristol Parks Forum believes this is impossible to achieve in such a short timescale. Many other big cities are exploring this option, some have already decided it simply won’t work; this was also the conclusion of last year’s Select Committee of the House of Commons.
There is a link to the petition on the website at www.bristolparksforum.org.uk
The future funding of parks maintenance will of course be a major subject for discussion at our meeting on Saturday – see www.bristolparksforum.org.uk/ meetings
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