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Stuball · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject:

How democratic of the council
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AlanM · Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject:

We'll see if the SNP administration will have the courage of their convictions and throw this out.
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james73 · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

This fight isn't over

FURIOUS campaigners are to take their fight against a controversial tree-top
adventure course in Pollok Park to Scottish Ministers. They promised to battle
on after Glasgow councillors voted 14-6 to allow the Go Ape plan to go
ahead.

The aerial course involves a series of high level rope walkways and six zip
slides suspended from the trees of the North Wood.

But almost 900 people, including Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, formally
objected. They said the highwire playground would ruin one of the few remaining
peaceful areas of the park.

The scheme will now be referred to the Scottish Government because of
the level of public interest and because the council owns the land.

Ministers will decide whether to rubber stamp or review the council decision,
which was revealed in later editions of yesterday's Evening Times.

Objectors want the Scottish Government to call in and overturn the decision.
However, it is believed the proposal is unlikely to be overturned by Holyrood.

James H
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Alex Glass · Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 12:23 am Post subject:

Took the oportunity to take a wee wander round Pollok Park earlier this week

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james73 · Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 10:00 pm Post subject:

Go Ape protest vow as Sturgeon hits out

MORE than 200 opponents of the Go Ape plan for Pollok Park have vowed to
fight on as the Deputy First Minister labelled the public consultation "a sham".

Nicola Sturgeon was among a number of MSPs and councillors at a meeting
last night at Burgh Hall in Maxwell Park, Pollokshields, to discuss Glasgow
City Council's decision to grant planning permission to build the zip-wire
adventure course in Pollok's North Wood.

As the council has an interest in the proposal, the application falls within a
category to be notified to the Scottish Government.

Once the application comes before ministers, a statutory 28-day period for
consideration will begin.

Ministers have two options: to "call in" the planning application for their own
determination, possibly by means of a public local inquiry; or to clear the
application back to the council for it to deal with as it sees fit.

Ms Sturgeon, who is also MSP for Glasgow Govan, which includes Pollok
Park, said she would do everything in her power "through the appropriate
channels" to support the review.

As part of the Scottish Government, she is prevented from directly involving
herself in the review process.

But, speaking to the audience, she said: "I want to pledge my support for
this campaign and will work on your behalf to make sure it prevails.

"I have said before the consultation process was woefully inadequate, and
looking even further into it, it is a sham - it might not as well have gone forward."

Unfortunately for the Save Pollok Park campaign, the existence of a substantial
number of objections is not sufficient grounds to merit it being called in.

James H
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james73 · Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:07 pm Post subject:

If Botanics club plan was kicked out then Go Ape should be too

OPPONENTS of the Go Ape adventure course in Glasgow's Pollok Park today
called for a U-turn on the project after a £7million nightclub planned for the
Botanic Gardens was scrapped.

Campaigners are furious the city council rejected the hugely unpopular
project for the Botanic Gardens, while giving the equally unpopular Go Ape
plan the go-ahead last month.

And today they called for council leader Steven Purcell to publicly come
out against Go Ape - just as he has done over clubs tycoon Stefan King's
bid for a venue in the Botanics.

They say the similarities between the Botanics nightclub plan and Go Ape's
Pollok Park venture, and the huge level of opposition to both, mean they
should both be rejected.

Danny Alderslow, Green councillor for Southside Central, said: "They are
so alike. I will be looking for Steven Purcell to do likewise with Pollok Park.
He can say he listened to the people about the Botanics. We want him to
listen to the people on Pollok Park."

The Evening Times yesterday told how the proposal by Mr King's G1 group
to transform a disused part of the Botanics into an underground nightclub,
bar and restaurant was being vetoed.

Bill Fraser, of campaign group Save Pollok Park, said: "The people of the
South Side might feel slighted if they don't get the same political support
that people in the West End have got.

"The strength of feeling in the South Side is as strong as it is in the West End.

"There are three things we have in common with the Botanics plan. That
project was abandoned due to huge local opposition, a lack of consultation
and a poor value lease - some of the reasons we oppose Go Ape.

"The Botanics was abandoned due to people power', and with nearly 5000
signatures on our petition and doubts over the sloppy' handling of the
planning application, we deserve the same support from our elected
representatives."

But deputy planning convener Jonathan Findlay hit back, saying there was
no comparison between the two developments.

And he defended giving Go Ape the go-ahead on the grounds it fitted the
city's health agenda by encouraging more people to get fit, especially
teenagers.

James H
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Stuball · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

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Alex Glass · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:26 pm Post subject:

WOW

That is a cracker Stu

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Stuball · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:33 pm Post subject:

Cheers... its me new toy

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Alex Glass · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 11:37 pm Post subject:

Looks like you have mastered is Stu

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