The National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces is concerned about the decline in quality of our public parks, which, along with allotments, have suffered from the dramatic cuts to local authority budgets. They are now calling on everyone to sign their petition which asks that the next Government ;
- holds a national inquiry into the funding and management of the UK's green spaces
- brings in a statutory duty to monitor and manage these spaces to Green Flag Award standard
- ensures adequate public resources for all green spaces
UK Parks Petition Click here to sign: http://chn.ge/TXdqhj
Our local green spaces are vital for everyone and every community, for all age groups and interests! They are an essential and unique service promoting relaxation, recreation and play, wildlife and bio-diversity, green jobs and skills, heritage, flood control, health and social well-being, and community cohesion.
However, there is growing alarm from the public, from Friends of Parks groups, and from parks managers, about the serious long-term damage being caused by dramatic cuts to green space budgets for staff and maintenance, and the lack of funding and investment by local and national government. If not reversed, this neglect will cause them to go into decline and become problem spaces abandoned by park users and plagued by vandalism.
This unfolding slide into crisis must be halted. It's time for action.
