Our last Labour leaflet said that the planning application for Bertie Park would be submitted at the end of March. According to the latest Oxford Mail article, it would be submitted at the end of April. Read the Oxford Mail article here. It is now the start of May.
In the article Alex Hollingsworth says that the new play area will be 7.7% smaller. Have a look at why this is misleading. The plans show the play area to be the same length as at present, but the same width as the Multi Use Games Area i.e. 15m wide.
We measured the existing play area as just over 20m wide. It will lose 5m, making it at least 25% smaller. The plans show a slope down into the playground all along one side, and even more space being taken up by disabled access for the MUGA. At the consultation in November, campaign members were assured it would be exactly the same size.
The recreation ground itself will be about 80% smaller.
When talking about Bertie Park, Oxford City Council emphasise the desperate plight of people on the waiting list for social housing. Across the rest of Oxford, they are creating far more jobs than housing, which will only exacerbate the housing crisis.
Save Bertie Park Oxford 