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At risk of sounding a bit flippant, it’s all starting to get ‘properly serious’ in the Save Pollok Park campaign to prevent Go Ape from setting up in Pollok Park’s North Wood, and thereby ruining the tranquility of one of the few remaining peaceful parts of the park.

In the next week or soNext Tuesday the planning committee are undertaking a site visit, and will later be hearing from concerned parties at the City Chambers. Suffice to say, the Save Pollok campaign are making sure the voices of the concerned public and park users is properly heard, and that there is no doubt where the majority of local opinion falls on this matter.

The detail below is taken from the Save Pollok Park website. Volunteers have also been out in the neighbourhood getting signatures for the petition (sign an online version here if you want: But soon!).

Site Visit & Hearing 25th March

The Planning Applications Committee will hold a site visit and hearing on Tuesday, 25th March. A bus will take members from the City Chambers to Pollok Park, arriving there by 10.00. Accompanied by a Planning Officer they will inspect the site before returning to City Chambers for a hearing scheduled at approx 11.00.

We need volunteers!

We’re sure many of you will want to support us either at the City Chambers or at the Park that day. We need two groups of people to help us out – one at the Burrell, the other George Square.

At the Burrell – we need a group to meet at 09.30 and be available until 1030. Your task is to help mark out the major features of the Go Ape site to help the committee members understand the layout a little better At the City Chambers – once again we need to demonstrate support with as many campaigners as possible at the hearing. You need to be available from 10.30-12.00

Register Your Attendance

We appreciate it’s a Tuesday morning but please do your best to turn up for an hour or two. So we can plan, we need to know how many can make it to either location. We’ve created a special e-mail address where you can register your interest. Please send a mail to: northwoodaction@gmail.com and state: name, e-mail address, and a phone number. Please tell us whether you can be at the Burrell or City Chambers or if you have no preference. Please do this by next Wednesday, 19th March. It’s the Easter weekend just before the hearing so we need time to make final plans and communicate them back to you.

More at www.savepollokpark.com in the News and Updates pages.

I’m hoping to get along to the Burrell group, but it depends a little on whether I can squeeze the time in during a busy work day. In the meantime, I figured I’d mentioned this to everybody I know

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