I’ve been a member of Liberty for a few years now. For an organisation of its size, it makes a considerable impact in any debate on civil liberties, which I feel have repeatedly under attack by this Government, most recently with the unnecessary proposal to increase pre-charge detention from 28 to 42 days. I find this [...]
The council, in it’s dismissal of the Save Pollok Park campaign - like to suggest its opposition to Go Ape in Pollok Park is a negative, single-issue campaign, devoid of constructive suggestions for how the council could meet it’s goals and targets to improve the use of the park. So to counter that, I thought [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
An online petition has been setup for everybody to register their opposition to Glasgow council and Go Ape’s proposal for Pollok Park. The target of 2,000 signatures would exceed the average number of votes cast for a city councillor at the 2007 election. The petition will close on 16 March. If you’ve ever visited Pollok Park, [...]
A week after attending the Go Ape Public meeting, Frances and I were at another public meeting, this time on the future of our local ‘town centre’ of Shawlands, in the heart of Glasgow’s south-side. It was organised by the excellent G41 local news organisation, and very well attended - I’d estimate between 200 and [...]
The Save Pollok Park campaign sent out an e-mail this morning highlighting a number of issues surrounding the Go Ape proposal for the historic North Wood. The big news was that my local constituency MSP, Nicola Sturgeon, has publicly come down against the proposal in a letter to The Herald. At the recent Public meeting [...]
I’ve blogged a number of times about the Go Ape proposal (here on the consultation, here, and here), and last night went along to the Save Pollok Park public meeting. The Herald does a much better job at summarising it than I can manage (and believe me, I tried). The BBC is also starting to [...]
Hello if you’re visiting my website after searching for details about the Go Ape proposal in Pollok Park, Glasgow. The community campaign to stop Go Ape from taking over a part of Pollok Park is at: www.savepollokpark.com - Be sure to visit, and also to write to the Planning officer to express your views on the [...]
Another campaign from Amnesty is irrepressible.info - an online pledge run together with The Observer, seeking to campaign against internet censorship, often complicity undertaken by large corporations who really should know better. var irr_lang = ‘en’;
