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Sunnybank Park at risk
Aberdeen City Council has recently mothballed the bowling greens and pavilion in Sunnybank Park (the St Machar Outdoor Centre). and says that the sports facilities are “surplus to requirements”. This seems a great loss to the area.
This page will be used to keep you up to date on what is happening, and what you can do to help keep this resource open to the public.
18th May
The City Council has agreed n principle ot lease the park to the group for five years. This will be for a ‘peppercorn rent.
This has to be ratified by the appropriate council committee this coming Thursday 20th.
More info, as it happens, on the park website:
http://www.sunnybankpark.org.uk/ then go to the Facebook link
30th April
A dedicated web site is now in place for the community action group who are trying to save the park.
The web site includes latest meetings and contact details, just go to: http://www.sunnybankpark.org.uk
26th March
Check out the new photo gallery -
8th March 201
The Sunnybank Park Action Group have issued their first newsletter. If you did not get one, click HERE for a copy.
And you might like to fill in a feedback form to help ensure they understand what everyone in the are wants. The form is available HERE.
1st March 2010
Plans progress and are described on page 2 of our March newsletter. Click here to read it.
12th November
6 months to develop a plan!
The council today agreed at the meeting of its Finance and Resources Committee to
accept the recommendations in its report on the 'St Machar Outdoor Centre' and allow
the Sunnybank community a six-
Old Aberdeen Community Council has helped set up a steering group which will now
develop a business plan with the intent of retaining the park, with possible long
term input to its management. The steering group will include other interested people
from outside the Old Aberdeen catchment area -
5th November
Hooray!! (almost)
It has been proposed that the community should be given a 6 month window to develop ideas and finance for keeping the park running. Here’s a copy of the draft council report that makes this recommendation. This will be discussed and hopefully approved at a City Council meeting next Thursday 12th.
A big thank you to all those who contributed to the questionnaire -
Here is a map of the area that is being discussed
21st September
Sorry about the delay but here is the summary of the results from the Questionnaire about how the community would like Sunnybank Park to be used.
This was passed to every Councillor who took part in the Finance & Resources Committee meeting on 17th September. Nevertheless, the Committee appears to have resolved to take the site to the market. In other words, flog it off for cash.
As the site is designated green space, they will have to change its designation first. The OACC is trying to find out how they can do that, and what their plans are. We feel it is criminal to sell of green spaces, which it will be impossible ever to recreate. Do tell your Councillor what you think about this, and do this as soon as possible as a meeting on 27th October will be discussion the land use aspect of this issue.
Contact details for Councillors Robertson, Noble and Collie are available on the 'local representatives' page of this web site.
There will be a meeting of the Sunnybank Park action group (still informal at present) next Tuesday. We will continue to keep you up to date on these pages.
Webadmin
15 Sept
Unfortunately, I have just heard that a vandal has started a fire in the pavilion. This is likely to make things a lot harder for us.
Webadmin
8th September 2009
Questionnaire has now been closed and response collated. A letter has been sent to the appropriate committee members who will be considering the fate of this park. I promised to publish the response here by the 11th, but I am presently out of the country. I will try and get this sorted. The response was pretty good with a lot of good ideas.
Webadmin
27th August 2009
Aberdeen City Council has recently mothballed the bowling greens and pavilion in Sunnybank Park (the St Machar Outdoor Centre). and says that the sports facilities are “surplus to requirements”. This seems a great loss to the area. The park’s future will be discussed by the City Council on September 17th, so it is important that we make the community’s views known. We want to know your thoughts on the park, how you currently use it, how it might be better developed to increase use by the surrounding communities so we can try to influence the outcome of the Council meeting.
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