For the residents of Harringay and neighbouring areas of Haringey

"Haringey spending on green spaces in lowest 25% but cuts almost highest in UK"

According to the Haringey Friends of Parks Forum:

The Council's spending on green spaces is already in the lowest 'quartile' of comparable boroughs, yet the threatened cuts are almost the highest in the UK.

They go on to say:

We believe this will make our green spaces unsafe, and return them back to the shocking neglect of the 1980/90s. We call on the Council to halt the plans.

They have mounted a petition which simply demands:

We call on the Council to halt the plans, and put adequate resources into our vital local parks and green spaces.

Despite considerable local concern about parks, however, so far, on Day 7, only 47 people have signed. I wonder why?

Want to add your voice?

Sign the e-petition here.

An earlier discussion about this petition is here.

Tags: parks, petition, public spending cuts

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Permalink Reply by alex on May 7, 2011 at 9:56

Lots of people have signed the paper version of the petition, so the low numbers online so far are probably to do with the hassle of having to log in before you can sign. Although it's not that bad in reality I often give up looking at websites once I hit something where I have to log in. Haven't even managed to log in to You Tube so I can give the thumbs up to the video clips I like.

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on May 7, 2011 at 10:10

Yes I was surprised at the requirement to register since you sign a paper petition with no such requirement. I wonder why FoHP chose to host the petition on the Council's system.

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Permalink Reply by Louise Nazeraj on May 7, 2011 at 10:48

I signed it online, takes less than 2 minutes to sign up and sign on. A lot less hassle than having derelict parks full of rubbish and nowhere nice to take the children to play.