| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Gunnersbury Park Security Fencing | |
| Posted by: | Michael Adams | |
| Date/Time: | 22/05/18 07:57:00 |
| Guy Lambert explained: "Michael, I'm struggling to answer this" Guy, there's no need to put yourself to any trouble over this. I think the location of the actual building is shown on page 17 of 29 on here. On the right is the detail, on the left the actual location. Along with the location of the proposed pitches. It actuall appears to be located on the site of the former bowling green - next to the nursery rather then further down as I previously thought. http://gunnersburyfriends.org/Documents/Sport%20in%20the%20Park%2020150331_Council%20Presentation_JK_V2.pdf (I don't know if this will scroll it may need to be copied and pasted). Now in addition to the actual building that drawing shows what are to be unfenced grass sports pitches. To be laid out on what I'll call the proposed pitch area. PPA As I mentioned before that area used to be covered in unfenced grass pitches which (from other documents) preserved an informal "right of way" which many users of the park (myself included) regularly used and use to traverse that section of the park diagonally from the Popes Lane entrance, to the changing room area and possibly further on. Obviously if matches were taking place you'd walk around the edge of the pitches. (Wihile on a point of information I was regularly coated in mud on a weekly basis during the early 60's on the rugby pitches further down as used by my school) So: it's quite reasonable that it might be thought necessary to fence off a corridor across the PPA to allow construction lorries to access the site - assuming the car park entrance is seen as too narrow, given that its also used by pedestrains. The gist: However I don't think its reasonable, or necessary however to fence off the entire PPA, as it was certainly fenced off on Sunday. But not subsequently for some reason. There can be a tendency among builders which always goes unchallenged for some reason - one might hope other than for their simple convenience to fence off far larger areas than are actually needed for them to do their work. Usually at the expense of the public. i.e its not necessary to fence off entire areas for months in order to put down unfenced sports pitches. Which can be can be levelled fed and marked out a few at a time. Also if construction lorries are to use the Pope's Lane entrance which is also used by pedestrians, I can then see can an argument being made for the need to close the Pope's Lane entrance to the public for safety reasons. michael adams ... |