Action by your local Labour Councillor has ensured that proposals will include a playground and multi-use games area on the main site, as well as improved community open space on the adjoining land behind Wytham Street
“Hinksey Park News”
People wonder why residents at this end of the Hinksey Park ward are trying to stop the council building social housing on a “tiny little recreation ground”.
The local plan says planning permission will only be given if the recreation ground is moved.
But it is not possible to move the recreation ground. The police say site B is not safe for unaccompanied children. And it floods. Our local councillors have not ensured that the playground and multi-use games area will stay on the main site. Without this, the council won’t get planning permission. The only thing that they can move is the green space!
So the Labour Party is now saying that site B will become a “community open space”. What does this mean?
We already have social housing in this area. There is a desperate need for more. But even kids in social housing deserve a safe place to play. Don’t they?
Save Bertie Park Oxford 