Bowling greens and parks facilities threatened by council spending cuts
NORTH East Lincolnshire Council has announced plans save up to £370,000 by transferring maintenance to parish councils and other interested parties.
A spokesman for NELC revealed the proposals to "rationalise" the grounds maintenance service - by potentially closing bowling greens, reducing grass cutting and introducing a mobile parks maintenance team.
Bowling greens and croquet lawns at Laceby, Healing, People's Park and Greenlands, New Waltham, are at risk of closure.NELC hopes facilities can be transferred to parish councils and other interested parties, but if none come forward, they will close to "protect other services".Discussions took place with some bowling clubs last year, as reported, and these will continue.
Meanwhile, the daily locking and unlocking of some parks and open spaces is "no longer sustainable", according to the authority.
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It has stopped immediately at: Duke of York Gardens; Bradley Woods; St Christopher's (Jubilee Playing field); Cleethorpes Country Park; Cleethorpes' King George (Taylor's Avenue); Roval Drive, Immingham; and Mount Pleasant, Waltham.The majority of grassed areas will continue to be cut as normal but NELC intends to reduce or remove this service at some sites, for example in Laceby Road and Weelsby Road.
The number of tubs and hanging baskets around the borough will also be reduced.As reported, the council must make savings of £58 million overall up to 2015/16. The grounds maintenance budget will be reduced by £1 million before then to help achieve this.
See tomorrow's Grimsby Telegraph for full details.
8 Comments
by jessieb100
Saturday, March 23 2013, 3:31PM
“What is happening yes we really want you all to come live here and bring your families and your business and please visit us as we are again allowing our parks and open spaces to to rack and ruin swimming pool closing flowers gone even managed to close the prom as they cannot manage the beach pot holes getting bigger this seems to take me back to the last time NELC was ruled by labour do they never change their spots.”
by jessieb100
Saturday, March 23 2013, 3:29PM
“What is happening yes we really want you all to come live here and bring your families and your business and please visit us as we are again allowing our parks and open spaces to to rack and ruin swimming pool closing flowers gone even managed to close the prom as they cannot manage the beach pot holes getting bigger this seems to take me back to the last time NELC was ruled by labour do they never change their spots.”
by Electorate
Saturday, March 23 2013, 2:41PM
“So the councils plans to save money? I thought making money was the MASER PLAN. Do they think we are all idiots? Scartho baths closing, new footpath even with a perectly good one existing. Shock Horror now the greens to close. What a perfect chance to sell off all that land for buildings? We all know so lets join together to stop them. They are supposed to represent us no themselves. Some of this land has been give to the public to stay open places so look after it as it is ours.”
by whatajoke112
Saturday, March 23 2013, 10:23AM
“All I can say is well done Chris Shaw, you really have managed to prove yourself to be the master economist, financial speciallist and the saviour of NEL. Not. The quicker this petty little man is gone the better.”
by davendogs
Friday, March 22 2013, 8:27PM
“May I suggest they stop locking Sidney park. It doesn't stop the teenagers and others getting in. The unlock time in the morning is haphazard at best. Dog walkers in the vicinity given extra access may prove to be a detterent for the existing anti social behaviour. The idea would need some refinement to prevent vehicular access, without restricting the firebrigade.”
by lizidrip
Friday, March 22 2013, 7:53PM
“Parks, bowling greens etc are much used community facilities and to reduce them or close them is criminal.
Peoples park is heaving on a nice sunny day and even when the weather is foul there are children on the swings, people walking dogs and on a sunday the green is covered with footballers
Parks and green spaces add to th quality of life for everyone
The council could save a lot of money in other ways, starting with doing a job properly in the first place and avoiding it been done over and over again The potholes in Legsby Ave were filled in last summer, again earlier this year and guess what the potholes are back again
I would imagine he excuse is the bad weather ! Not the fact that he work was not done properly in the first place.
Then there is the town hall, I wonder what the heating bill is? What is the point in having the whole building with its huge rooms with high ceilings heated when it is not all been used, but I would expect it boosts the counselors ego,s keep that for them to wallow in and close parks and bowling greense!!”
by grimrich
Friday, March 22 2013, 6:54PM
“gravel stone the lot , problem solved”
by redcisse09
Friday, March 22 2013, 6:35PM
“The council really is divorced from reality isn't it? "Hey everyone where aimlessly building a new pool and renovating the freshney, we know you you don't want us to but were the council, and we know best, period. But in the meantime we also need to make cuts, Our next set of cuts will involve destroying the roads instead of sorting the pots holes".”