Scottish Borders Council (SBC) is running an informal consultation on the proposals until Monday (April 26). But Charles Strang, the co-convenor of the Scottish Green Party’s Borders branch, has expressed disappointment with the council’s approach. In a letter, Mr Strang writes: “On the face of it this is not a genuine consultation, but a hollow exercise seeking to justify an education authority taking the easy option of expanding onto a greenfield site just because they think they can.” Yet he adds: “The people who care about public open space, and trust in local government, should still be seeking to make their voices heard.”
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image captionThe trees will be planted in six parks around Burnley
Cherry trees will be planted in parks around a Lancashire town in memory of people who died during the coronavirus pandemic.
Burnley Council is to spend £3,000 on saplings that will flower each spring to mark the anniversary of the first lockdown in 2020.
It is part of a wider £18,000 tree-planting push in the area.
Councillors said they want to link the spirit of tackling climate change with honouring those who died of the virus.
They said: The schemes will contribute to the objectives of reducing CO2 emissions and carbon sequestration.
SPECIAL cherry trees will be planted in a borough’s parks to remember residents who died from the coronavirus pandemic. Burnley Council’s executive authorised spending £3,000 on the commemorative saplings which will flower each spring to mark the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown. It is part of a wider £18,000 tree planting to combat climate change agreed by the senior councillors. The cherry trees will be placed in Ightenhill Park, Padiham Memorial Park, Queens Park, Scott Park, Thompson Park and Towneley Park. The plan was devised by the council’s cross-party climate change working group. Working group chair and Green Party councillor Andy Fewings said: “We thought it would be a really nice thing to have some commemorative trees that could be planted in parks and give people who may not have been able to give the send-off to loved ones that they wanted to somewhere to go and remember and pay their respects and grieve in a way they might not have felt a
SPECIAL cherry trees will be planted in a borough’s parks to remember residents who died from the coronavirus pandemic. Burnley Council’s executive authorised spending £3,000 on the commemorative saplings which will flower each spring to mark the start of the first Covid-19 lockdown. It is part of a wider £18,000 tree planting to combat climate change agreed by the senior councillors. The cherry trees will be placed in Ightenhill Park, Padiham Memorial Park, Queens Park, Scott Park, Thompson Park and Towneley Park. The plan was devised by the council’s cross-party climate change working group. Working group chair and Green Party councillor Andy Fewings said: “We thought it would be a really nice thing to have some commemorative trees that could be planted in parks and give people who may not have been able to give the send-off to loved ones that they wanted to somewhere to go and remember and pay their respects and grieve in a way they might not have felt a
Paving the Way for Millcreek Park Improvements Work on Scott Park slated for summer, CARS Project in works by Matt Swanseger
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Millcreek Township is making accessibility its modus operandi this summer, with one major parks and recreation project set to begin and another pending.
Scott Park, a popular nominee in a number of our Best of Erie outdoor categories, is officially on the books for $120,000 worth of improvements. Of that money, $98,000 will go toward the construction of new pedestrian walkways and ADA-compliant spectator areas alongside its ballfields, contracted through Lindy Paving. The latter phases of the project, tabbed for completion in late summer, will add new bleachers and park benches after the new pavement is laid down. The majority of the funding was delivered through a $77,000 Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources grant.