Save Rumney Recreation Ground & Eastern Leisure Centre

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Gaynor

Gaynor
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I am a resident of Llanrumney since 1992 and I am disgusted at how Cardiff Council want to build anything at all on our parkland. It is my belief that parkland and open spaces should be protected against development in order to preserve them for people today, and for future generations. For me, this is an environmental and health issue and I think the council should develop their plans for improved school buildings on an existing brownfield site and definately not on a greenfield site.

In addition, situating a school in the middle of two busy roads, Newport Road and Llanrumney Ave is putting the lives of pupils at risk. At the end of the day 1,600 children and young people will pour our if their "island" school on to very busy roads. Further dangers would be produced with the added traffic from selling off Llanrumney & Rumney school sites for housing developements, where each house is likely to have two cars adding to the problem. We should all campaign against losing our park and against putting our children on an "island" surrounded by traffic and putting their lives at risk as they travel to and from school.

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Gaynor
reply Gaynor
07:53 AM on March 08, 2009
Our park looked resplendent this morning as the sun rose in the East and the birds fed on the worms ad twittered away in the trees.
Gaynor
reply Gaynor
06:21 PM on March 03, 2009
What a wonderful turnout tonight for our Public Meeting 3.3.2009 despite the rain.
Gaynor
reply Gaynor
02:28 PM on February 18, 2009
Could someone explain why we don't try to get Village Green Status for the Rumney Rec?
Gaynor
reply Gaynor
11:58 AM on February 18, 2009
I think we should all say a big thank you to Mel Plenty who proposed the Referendum in the first place. However, Mel Plenty was unable to vote against the Council's decision to build a school on our park, because he was denied a postal vote and was unable to attend the polling station for personal reasons. Also, all the others that couldn't vote because of disability or frailty due to the of archaic 1987 Polls Rules that appear to flaunt the Disability Discrimination Act. Thank you Mel for caring enough to call for a Referendum on a matter that seeks the rip the heart out of our community.
Gaynor
reply Gaynor
07:41 AM on February 18, 2009
Trust the council to come out today with a comment on the massive NO vote " There are also concerns that some people may have been misled into believing that Eastern Leisure Centre was under threat from the council's proposals when in fact the proposal is to spend nearly £7m upgrading it". This is utter tosh, the people of this area are concerned about the loss of their parkland, they totally understood the issue. The fact remains, the people of Rumney and Llanrumney want a new school or an up-graded school, but they certainly don't want a state-of the art, monstrous carbuncle in the middle of their park. The council have treated us like a bunch of schoolchildren who don't know what's good for them. How about the council improving the infrastructure in the area, the depressed looking streets, the ant-social behaviour, the massive pot holes in the roads, the litter and graffiti? If you go to Cyncoed or Lisvane you see none of this. The people of Rumney and Llanrumney need a better quality of life, not one made worse by a high school on parkland. We all want the best for school children and the best for all concerned would be to modernise the Rumney High School site to provide education for those in Llanrumney, Rumney and surrounding areas, Trowbridge children and St Mellons childrentoo whose families had no say in the poll.