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TBOP Query Maintenance Yard Impact Report

TBOP Query Maintenance Yard Impact Report

Take Back Our Park campaigners are querying whether any reports into the impact of a new Parks department maintenance yard in the heart of the Botanical Gardens were ever done. Take Back Our Park used the new Public Access to Information [PATI] legislation to ask for copies of an environmental impact report, a noise impact study and a visual impact... Read more of this article

Group Expresses Concerns Over Water Tower

Group Expresses Concerns Over Water Tower

Action group Take Back Our Park – which is trying to stop the Government from going ahead with a maintenance yard in the middle of the Botanical Gardens - has expressed concerns over a water tower at the site. Jennifer Flood, a spokeswoman for Take Back Our Park, said “There is a sign posted on the tower saying ‘Dangerous gases may be present... Read more of this article

1,000 Sign Petition Regarding Botanical Gardens

1,000 Sign Petition Regarding Botanical Gardens

More than 1,000 people have signed a petition asking government to immediately halt work on a new maintenance yard in the heart of the Botanical Gardens. Action group Take Back Our Park launched the petition just over four weeks ago to try to persuade government to halt the work, which will involve building two large two story buildings and a three... Read more of this article

Petition: Botanical Gardens Maintenance Yard

Petition: Botanical Gardens Maintenance Yard

Action group Take Back Our Park has started an online petition to let people have their say over a maintenance yard being built in the middle of the Botanical Gardens. A statement from the group said, “Take Back Our Park wants to see work on the yard, which includes two new two-story buildings, a water tank, and staff parking lot, halted as the... Read more of this article