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Originally Posted by Neil

In my opinion Hyndburn has too many green spaces to look after with the current size of its parks department. I was very disapointed when they created the new one off Henry Street in Church. Why create a new one when they can't afford to look after what they have? I am sure it was funded from some grant or another but when that ends HBC will have to pay to maintain it.

Maybe Accrington should loose one of its parks, it has several while Oswaldtwistle only has one park yet has half the population of Accrington. The park is also close to the towns border with Spring Hill so attracts a lot of visitors from that area of Accrington as well.

One interesting figure I have just pulled out of the bid is that the population within a 1km catchment area of the park is over 14,000.

Neil, here's your chance to have a say in the number of parks in Hyndburn our council are after comments and thoughts, to influence the "new borough development plan"
Have on a say on Hyndburn's future developments (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Perhaps they should sell off part of Rhyddings Park to a poperty developer to build some houses, and write a clause in to the planning permission, that the developer maintains the remaining part of the park for 10 years on completion of the development.
That could also apply to other parks in the borough

Looks like a double post, sorry about that