Friday 29 March 2013

SMBC Consultation on Budget Cuts for Parks and Open Spaces

SMBC has launched a consultation on budget cuts for parks and open spaces for the financial year 2014-15.
Photo by Arthur Procter

The cuts may include some or all of the following:

  • No longer employing people with any horticultural knowledge to look after flowerbeds, trees, shrubs and parkland.
  • Removing instead of repairing or replacing broken play equipment.
  • Removing instead of repairing or replacing broken fencing, seating, signage, and other street furniture.
  • Picking up litter in parks no more than once per week.
  • Fewer staff based at specific parks (this will almost certainly impact Marple Memorial Park's staffing).
  • Removing support to Friends of Park Groups, leaving them to try and get on with a bigger work load on their own.
  • A cessation or reduction in the frequency of hedge trimming, cutting grass, removing graffiti, pruning, weeding and maintenance of parks.
To find out more and have your say follow the link here: http://www.marple-uk.com/smf/index.php?topic=4979.msg29666#msg29666
 

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