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Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:13:45 +0000
From: SchNEWS (schnews@gn.apc.org)
Reply-To: schnews@brighton.co.uk
Subject: SchNEWS 215, 11 June 1999

WILD IN THE COUNTRY - PRINCESS PARK (LIVERPOOL)

Typical - a bit of wilderness manages to flourish inoffensively in an inner-city park in Liverpool for long enough that even the Council recognise the informal footpath that has become a right of way. Then suddenly it's sold off for development. Who needs owls, foxes, rabbits, pipistrel bats and other wildlife not to mention many different species of trees when you can have two three-storey blocks of luxury flats, a new road and a car park? Determined to make the council think again, local residents have moved into the area occupying the trees. This area has few wild spaces, yet lots of empty buildings and waste land. So why was planning permission given on this site? The Council's own Nature Conservation Strategy states that "the aim will be to provide the people of Liverpool with a network of wildlife sites throughout the city which are an accessible part of their everyday lives - and provide a living educational facility". How exactly do they suppose that this planning permission will achieve that aim?

Friends of Princes Park 0403 176 279


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