Please Note - Our next meeting is on Tuesday 9th March at the German Speaking Church
Save Our Meadows
The Campaign continues
Consultation? What consultation?
We have seen a letter from the Parks Department which suggests that the Parks Events consultation responses will be ignored with respect to the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links, except in one very narrow aspect. You can see the letter here.
Parks Events Manifesto consultation
The city-wide Parks Events Manifesto consultation period has now finished. The Parks Department are now, we hope, noting our comments and modifying their document accordingly. In the document that went out for consultation the maximum time for an event stays at 4 weeks for the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links, which we still think is too long. The chances of that changing in this round are slim though. (See note above - "Consultation, what consultation?") Other parks are given considerably shorter maximum times. Included in this new document is a limit of five events per year - a figure that was not included in the earlier document, and an area we may have a chance to influence. We have seen a Management Plan which gives a limit of four major events per year. We do not know what the timetable is for progress with this document. Perhaps David Jamieson, Head of Parks, will tell us at our meeting on 9th March. (See
Meetings).
Green Flag
Having been refused a Green Flag for the Meadows and Bruntsfield Links in 2009, the Parks Department and the South Central Neighbourhood Partnership are trying again to see if they can get one in 2010. They have produced a management plan which they hope will score better with the Green Flag judges than last year's - the judges' report last year was highly critical of the management plan. The plan should be judged by results - there are a number of management issues to address.
The issues we are most concerned about at present are the subject of our
Current Issues page.
Meadows Chamber Orchestra
The next concert of the Meadows Chamber Orchestra will be given in Greyfriars Kirk on Saturday 20 February, in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care, and conducted by David Watkin. The programme consists of Mozart's last symphony (no. 41 in C, the Jupiter), and Beethoven's first (also in C). Adrian Uren plays Mozart's popular fourth horn concerto, and the orchestra also plays the 'Representation of Chaos' from Haydn's oratorio 'The Creation'. For further information
see the website.
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