Headington Hill Park - tree felling & identifying...
From:
Jock Coats
Date:
Jul 11 13:06 UTC
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I suspect it is very much what a "friends" group wants to make of
it. When I contacted the city council parks department obviously had
some remit and/or budget to assist setting up friends groups and I
imagine in an active friends group, such as the one at Cutteslowe,
they can get a fair amount done - I believe it is the "friends" at
Cutteslowe who organize things like the concerts of which there was
one a couple of weekends ago and so on.
So I imagine parks department would keep them informed. But by
definition I suspect there are no formal "powers" involved, just a
group that can act as a consultative body and who can get things
organized for themselves.
Jock
On 11 Jul 2008, at 13:54, Stephanie Jenkins wrote:
> The only parks in Headington and Marston which appear to have
> official "friends" are:
> Milham Ford Park
> Quarry Hollow Park
>
> You can become Friends of Parks here on the Oxford City Council
> website:
> http://www.oxford.gov.uk/websitetools/bespoke-forms.cfm/bespokeform/21
>
> But do "Friends" have any more power to stop the chainsaws than
> local councillors and residents' organizations, who are usually
> informed about what is going to take place? And what argument can
> amateurs use if they are told a tree is unsafe?
>
> There was a letter in last night's Oxford Mail about the current
> excessive tree-felling in Headington Park (it was unclear whether
> Bury Knowle or Headington Hill Park was meant), and it suggested it
> was a good thing to leave trees alone, as they do in the University
> Parks. But some of these topple every time there is a storm.
>
>
> Stephanie Jenkins
> Headington, Oxford
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