| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Ealing Regional Park | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 20/03/25 13:20:00 |
| Ealing have proved and demonstrated admirably that they cannot manage the Parks they have got. And for a rather long time. Gunnersbury Park : A disaster for the best part of 45 years with mismanagement and too much politicking with its shared ownership Hounslow. The CIC set up to wash their hands of it is equally disastrous with the park largely a cash cow for events and the usual gravy train of management tiers. Is an of leash disaster - except for a hatful who take rather good salaries and perks. It is now expensive, has lost its quintessential charm and is not the wide range of access for all. Some of which survived into the present era. Even ticketing local visitors who parked on Christmas and Boxing Day. A real community asset..Not! It is most certainly no longer accessible to all in reality, just for tick box exercises. Walpole Park : A shadow of what it was, despite the vast amount spent on it and the Manor which again denies even access to the park from the main gate. Elitist and exclusive,Y es, but elegant and refined as a whole park ? No. And then the scandal of the Coffee Hut and the nepotistic awarding of franchises. Flagged up by locals as Underhand and inept, denied vociferously and yet turned out to be exactly what was feared and a failure. Then there's Lammas Park : An environmental catastrophe. With a list of damage to long to be acceptable from wiping out the few remaining pockets of Hedgehog colonies to destroying a safe stone free and long created level and drained grass playing area to felling heathy trees only in need of some TLC that free date the park. And now E.Coli and Toxoplasmosis to name a few. Damage to a public park that has been the safe to play in park for generations of children, a plaything for deceptive, arrogant and sly politicians and inept officers with poor records and credentials other than knowing how to climb the greasy pole. So this Regional Park. Regional ? What's that suppose to mean. We live in local districts but a region? The London Basin? Greater London? Outer London. Utter crass nonsense. A nice idea except if you know your way round properly it already exists. Just not in the Disneyfied rose tinted wilding way of consultants and advisors who make a fair few bob out of gullibility and desperate politicians. But funding it and more importantly properly maintaining it, keeping it safe, keeping it healthy? If they cannot manage to even maintain healthy mature trees without lying about their condition and maintaining contempt for heritage and ambience of this borough, then how will they manage sites bigger than Kew Gardens but with a barely registrable fraction of the income and funding of the budget they have? |