| Many of us are getting totally fed-up with the overdevelopment of the few green spaces we have in West London. I am glad I have had many years of the use of Gunnersbury Park when there was a lot of land to walk on freely with my dogs and where they could bound around the grassy perimeter and through the woodland and the long meadow grass with maybe a couple of days a year taken out for events. That will not be the case in future. Similarly with Acton Park where activities for children take up the whole of the East side including a nursery and huge play areas, the South side by tennis courts and gym equipment, the West side by a new school, and now a proposed skate park, in addition to the crazy golf area which has replaced the bowling green - no objection to any per se but the room to just walk, chill, sit and picnic is being eroded. And now the tiny Southfield Playing Fields, in addition to a huge amount of gym equipment, two tennis courts, football pitches and quite a big children's playground is now to extend the latter, taking away more space from walkers, runners, picnickers and people who just want some peace and quiet. I have taken photos every day of the playground for a month now at various times of the day. 80% of the time the existing playground is completely empty. The other 99% it has only 3-5 people in max. It's nuts. Why do they have to keep developing? They gym equipment in Southfield Playing Fields was a bung from developers so they could build some flats. How much of the rest of it is the same? |