PP32 SAVING OUR SPACE
SAVING OUR
SPACE
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The 40-page publication,
Saving Open Space is GreenSpace's sixth publication targeted
specifically at community groups wanting to know how to
start and run a campaign.
Saving Open Space provides
a toolkit for residents who want to run a campaign to fight
a development on a park or green space.
Covering the different
approaches and methods behind running a successful campaign,
it proves that when communities are forced into taking on
the might of developers and planners, they can
win.
ISBN: 0-9542663-5-8
Published: 24.11.04
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"There is a better way.
"Most good parents do not start parenting
only when they have to collect their wayward teenager from the
custody suite. If you want to save your open space, start now, before
it is threatened.
"Like, immediately!
"Go around your neighbourhood with your
friends and identify sites which might be under threat: the tired,
sad, neglected open space so favoured of developers.
"The fringe of the park that is used to store
skips in.
"The bit of woodland at the back of your
estate. The triangle behind the railway track where your kids play,
or where nature has taken over.
"Then set about protecting
it..............."
Author Philp Kolvin was the
Chairman of the Crystal Palace Campaign from 1988 to 2004. He is now
the trustee of the Campaign to Protect Rural England. Described by
the Financial Times asan "eco-yuppie stoming the Palace gates from
within" in his other life he is a barrister and writer specialising
in licencing, planning and the environment.
Editor Nick Ockenden and
designer Finbar Mulholland have put together a quality
publication, clear, easy to look at and read, in fact, typical of the
first class green-space publications which really disseminate the
expert knowledge they command to the people who really need
it!
This is an excellent publication, a must-have for serious campaigners
in this field and others. There is a wealth of detailed information -
a real how-to-do-it manual - with plenty of concrete advice taken
from the successful Crystal Palace Campaign experience. The book has
a very good list of Further Resources, Further Reading, Further
Publications....
Ray Sacks CPC
Chairman
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