Download this poster and pass onto your friends and family if you can.
If you are a singer or musician, make cakes or can do something to help make this picnic rock in any way, let us know! Post a comment here, call Martin on 07930 760868 or get in touch on facebook.com/saveseftonparkmeadows
Show Liverpool Council that we will not give up fighting this sell off of Sefton Park Meadows !
The preferred developer for Sefton Park Meadows is to be announced within a few weeks by Liverpool City Council. Eight developers submitted Expressions of Interest by the March 31st closing date. We couldn’t get information from the Council on who they were, but we wrote to all development companies we could track down in Liverpool and the northwest, to let them know of our campaign and the fierce opposition by the majority of people to housing on the Meadows.
WE WILL FIGHT ON THROUGH THE NEXT STAGES AND THROUGH THE PLANNING PROCESS!
WE ARE INVITING ALL FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS TO OUR
ANNIVERSARY PICNIC ON THE MEADOWS
EASTER MONDAY 21ST APRIL 2PM TO 4PM
It’s just over a year since the Council decided to put Sefton Park Meadows up for sale. Come and celebrate the beauty and historic place of Sefton Park Meadows, bring your friends and family, music, food, creative spirit and picnic rug (maybe a brolly too!).
New logo by John Davies
We still need your support – this campaign will not stop here!
Contact us if you can bring anything to the Picnic on 21st April.
Selling off our cherished assets – St Luke’s ‘Bombed Out’ Church is the latest on the council’s list – is shortsighted, damaging and in our Meadows campaign experience, poorly scrutinised.
Local people and the Save Sefton Park Meadows campaign have challenged this decision on every front. We went through a Formal Complaints process to the Local Ombudsman over Council process and administration over the sell off – only to receive a decision that the Local Ombudsman ‘cannot investigate this complaint about a land sale as the Ombudsman cannot investigate something that affects all or most of the people in a council’s area.’ As a channel to challenge ANY SELL OFF OF COUNCIL ASSETS , the Local Ombudsman ‘cannot question councils’ legal right to sell or otherwise dispose of land, or question the merits of their decisions about whether and how to do it. It can consider complaints about administrative fault in the decision-making process. However, the Ombudsman would not usually investigate complaints that a council has been ‘wasting public money’. This is because the Ombudsman cannot investigate something that affects all or most of the people in a council’s area’ (Local Government Act 1974, section26(7)).
Thanks to all those hardy people who came out in the rain and wind to our second MASS PICNIC on the Meadowlands on Bank Holiday Monday! The really committed even enjoyed their outdoor picnic!
We had great fun, despite the weather, and over 600 people joined in over the afternoon for music, food, games, dog training, information and to show their support.
Highlights were the Socialist Choir who had even composed their own song, Dan’s sack races for kids and adults, and Phoebe and Catherine’s dog agility and pet grooming area! Dogs and their walkers love this space too… All part of our campaign against Liverpool City Council’s SELL OFF of this historic and valuable public open space around Sefton Park.
We’re showing Liverpool City Council that greenspace makes good social and business sense. Mayor Anderson, it’s also a fantastic space for events!
