Last night both Frances and I attended the campaign meeting against Go Ape in Pollok Park, excellently organised - as ever - by Save Pollok Park. It was good to finally briefly meet Bill Fraser too, having exchanged plenty of e-mails over the last few months!
There’s good coverage of the meeting at the Evening times, and The Herald, both with video segments that do a great job of summarising the event. The BBC has brief coverage, but nothing at all from the Scotsman as far as I can tell. But lots to do before we get that far, and it’s by no means guaranteed.
The meeting was a great success, and some excellent points made by all present (politicians and campaigners), across - I think - all political persuasions. A really encouraging turnout of five MSP’s, and five Glasgow councillors, and I genuinely felt that the politicians were going to be a really useful, and supportive asset as matters move forward. Notably none from Labour - who control Glasgow council, but not the parliament - which says all you need to know really.
It’s clear that simply having thousands of signatures on a petition (sign it here!) isn’t enough, but the ineptitude of the council planners, the woeful exclusion of pertinent pieces of information, the misrepresentation of key organisational views, all make excellent grounds for the ‘calling-in’ by the Scottish Government, and - hopefully - sense to prevail.
For anybody interested, I’ve converted the presentation slides that were used to a (small) PDF or a larger one. The shrunk down Powerpoint is here.
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