http://news.sky.com/story/public-par...-cuts-10763463
When l was growing up, there was an old saying 'you cannot get blood out of a stone'
I think that with the budget cuts hitting Councils. Now Local Parks are going to suffer, with either early closures or even litter collection.
Isn't it about time that the Government starts to realise that budgets to local Council have hit rock bottom and they cannot cut anything else.
We have Council's now going to fortnightly refuse collections - some l believe are going to Monthly collection to save money.
All this has to be the biggest problem going.
Councils make money - that we don't see. On recycling material ie paper and tin can, glass etc.
And yet they still at they are at a loss.
Then they make an absolute fortune on Parking plus fines.
And yet now they say that Councils are going to cuts parks.
The local Parks near don't have any Toilets, they were closed years ago. The biggest park near me Gunnersbury Park is an absolutely disgrace. It was sold to a private Company years ago. And just left to rot.
Local football fields - ie Warren Farm was sold to QPR as there new training ground. And this has been hit by local protest. And the Fields was left in disrepair - again by the local Council.
So when you hit rock bottom, where do you go from there. And yet, they cliam they have to make cuts - take the money from the thousands they make from hitting us in fines