Oxford City Council will meet on to decide whether to appropriate the land on Bertie Park for planning purposes. They have said that appropriation is simply moving land from “one budget to another” …. a “paper exercise.”
But it has real consequences for our community. It is the difference between having a recreation ground and not having a recreation ground. To appropriate Bertie Park, OCC will have to meet conditions set out by section 122 of the 1972 local government Act. They will have to:
- Show that Bertie Park is no longer needed
- “Properly and conscientiously” consider the community’s responses to their consultation.
Last time that OCC cabinet was due to make this decision, the Bertie Park campaign raised legal issues which stopped them in their tracks.
Should residents be responsible for checking the legality of the council’s actions?
Save Bertie Park Oxford 
save Bertie park there are not many parks for the children left a lot of family’s use it in the regular it would not be fair kind or logical or practical to take it away from the community
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