Friends of Central Park Plymouth
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FoCP are members of:
Open Spaces Society: http://www.oss.org.uk/
Plymouth Community Partnership http://www.pcp.org.uk/
About Friends of Central Park:
Constitution of Friends of Central Park
Friends
of Central Park meet on the second Tuesdays of each month at
7.30pm at the Hyde Park Pub, (upstairs), Mutley Plain.
NEXT
MEETING
Tuesday 10th January 2012
We
welcome everyone who is interested in Central Park!
Note
from the Secretary of Friends of Central Park:
I think most will agree with me that we began 2011 with considerable uncertainty
and doubt over our efforts to ward off various property speculators out
to poach parts of Central Park much less than building any positive plans
for improving the park. However, at the end of the year, we had come full
circle. The property developers eventually evaporated (along with £17
million of Argyle Football Club’s money) by August. Moreover, having spent
considerable energies ‘defending the park’ over the past years, we, at
last, were able to move on to more positive endeavours in the second half
of 2011. For example, for the park, we ended the year having achieved
the notable milestones of: gaining the agreement from the Council for
CP to be nominated for Queen Elizabeth II status, began planning a Jubilee
Walk, and, importantly, succeeded in negotiating with the Planning Dept
resulting in the Council publishing a works schedule that will remove
the industrial waste spoil on the neglected Zoo field which will enable
the planting of a Community Orchard of heritage fruit trees. This is easy
to write down but, in reality, none of this could have been achieved without
the considerable efforts of a number of people in the FOCP – so thanks
to them.
Please see the minutes for more information, get in touch with us and/or come along to the meetings to find out more!
Minutes
of December 2011 meeting
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of November 2011 meeting
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of October 2011 meeting
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of September 2011 meeting
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of August 2011 meeting
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of February 2011 meeting
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of January 2011 meeting
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of December 2010 meeting
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of November 2010 meeting
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of October 2010 meeting
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of September 2010 meeting
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of August 2010 meeting
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of July 2010 meeting
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of June 2010 meeting
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of April 2010 meeting
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of March 2010 meeting
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of February 2010 meeting
Minutes
of December 2009 meeting
The Central Park Area Action Plan (CPAAP), was approved in September 2008 by the Government's Planning Inspector after a consultation process. It set the planning framework for the next 15 years. It allows for a sports centre, expansion of Home Park, and building development at Pennycomequick and Peverell/Outland Road corner - losing parts of the park included allotments tended for years. Friends of Central Park say yes to swimming pool and leisure facilities within the footprint of the current buildings and car parking. But no to expanding the area run by Argyle, or any hotels, conference centres, or offices that mean building on the park's greenspace with traffic and parking problems increased.
Friends of Central Park, Plymouth, support plans which maximise opportunities for all communities and ages to use the open space freely, to increase biodiversity and link in with other health, environmental and community initiatives in Plymouth. The group is investigating support for legislation to protect urban green space.
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See the Plan
and Inspectors Report at the main Public Library or at: and www.plymouth.gov.uk/centraparkpreferredoptions Comments made during the consultation can be seen if you register and login at: http://plymouth.consult.limehouse.co.uk/portal/ldf/cpaap Friends of Central Park submitted their comments on the plan (pdf) in February, and a Supplementary statement (pdf) in April followed by supporting evidence (htm index). For the comments to be valid they had to be based on the '' Tests of Soundness". |
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Future FCP meetings:
Friends of Central Park Plymouth meet on the second Tuesday of every month
at the Hyde Park, Mutley Plain (upstairs) at 7.30pm. email: info@centralparkfriends.info
for more information.
See also:
- Minutes of previous Friends of Central Park meetings
- Councillors' promises in the May 2007 elections
- List of Councillors can be found on the City Council website