The geese have moved inland more in recent years, grazing on parks and grass pitches. How then, to balance their needs with calls for more all-weather pitches?
It’s “Not acceptable that major public infra[structure is] being consistently disrupted by a single private business and its clients,” a local councillor said Tuesday.
It will jointly develop the pitch and changing rooms with the Land Development Agency at the St Teresa’s Gardens site, council officials said recently.
It’s “been sitting here for as long as I can remember”, says local resident Deirdre Murray. “It’s had lots of anti-social behaviour, bonfires, illegal dumping.”
We hope you’ll use it to report hazards, near collisions, and collisions. Hopefully, over the long-term, this will help make cycling safer – and get more people out of cars and onto bikes.
Big enough for small children to play pirates in, but filled instead with flowers, they sit in the front gardens of a terrace of brick houses. Here’s their story.
The council has not responded to queries about whether there are plans to put gates across the footpaths too, and further down towards the other end of the road.
“We’re just trying to get people through one more night on the streets,” says Kiera Gill, a founder of A Lending Hand, a voluntary on-street homeless service.
“Ultimately, for us the most important thing is that this survives and stays in the community as a service,” says Emma Kennedy, managing director of the Echo.
