On June 12th OCC will decide whether to appropriate Bertie Park Recreation Ground for building. Not exciting? If they can’t appropriate, it stops them in their tracks!
“Appropriation” is a legal procedure described in s122 of the 1972 Local Government Act. Even if a local authority already owns a recreation ground, they must appropriate it first before they can build on it.
The law says that they must take into account our objections. The cabinet was supposed to make a decision last November. Many turned up to watch, but they took it off the agenda at the last minute after they read what we had to say.
Now they have told us that they will decide at the cabinet meeting in June.
Save Bertie Park Oxford 