Open Bowring Park Changing Rooms Car Park

Help us get 1,000 signatories

The new petition to unlock Bowring Park Car Park has attracted over 500 signatories. Please help us get to over 1,000 by sharing this link https://chng.it/7XRF6ns2 on your social media posts.

Pass it on

Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that we’ve just passed 250 signatures on our new petition, within 24 hours of it being launched! Thank you so much for your support! Will you help me to get more support by sharing this petition with ten other people? If enough of us sign we can’t be ignored! Here’s a link to share https://www.change.org/p/telford-and-wrekin-council-unlock-bowring-park-car-park

Please sign new petition

A year has passed since we petitioned the Council to open Bowring Park Changing Rooms Car Park which was rejected.

This means that we can now submit a new petition. I am aiming for over 1,000 signatories so please share this link to any social media outlets where it will be seen by Bowring Park Users.

http://chng.it/Jzz787hZtp

Bowring Park Users Group

Bowring Park Users Group has been set up as a new Facebook Page to campaign for improvements to the park. Please join here Bowring Park Users Group | Facebook

Park Survey

Telford and Wrekin Council are conducting a survey of users of Bowring Park. This is a great opportunity to add your comments about the necessity of opening the Herbert Avenue Car Park.

You can complete the survey here - http://orlo.uk/7T6kd

Wellington Town Council

Wellington Town Council has agreed to look into issues around access to Bowring Park and Car Parking arrangements after I addressed a meeting of the Policy & Resources Committee on 2 February 2021. You can see my presentation here:

https://www.facebook.com/WellingtonTCShropshire/videos/161185248942606

Feel free to make your views known to your local Town Councillor. You can find their details here

http://www.wellington-shropshire.gov.uk/who-we-are/

You can email them asking them to support a Resolution to Telford & Wrekin Council by sending your views marked for their attention to wellingtontowncouncil@telford.gov.uk

Wellington Town Council - Tuesday 2 February at 7.00pm

Please log into the Wellington Town Council Meeting on Facebook at 7.00pm on Tuesday 2 February. I will be addressing the Policy & Resources Committee to ask for their support in lobbying Telford & Wrekin Council to open the Herbert Avenue Car Park.

I would appreciate your support as although you can't speak at the meeting you can add your comments to the Facebook Page which all the Meeting attendees will see.

This Campaign will continue until T&W Council see sense and unlock the car park. I have also made a formal complaint to the Local Government Ombudsman about this so we'll see what happens.

Please comment on planning application

A Planning Application has been submitted to Telford & Wrekin Council for the installation of portacabins for use by customers of the Cafe. This gives us an opportunity to comment on the Planning Application regarding the need for additional car parking facilities due to the increase in visitor numbers. 

Please look at the website for Telford & Wrekin Council and search for Planning Applications. Insert the reference number TWC/2020/0956 and add your views under "Application Comments" - you will see a few already. 

The campaign to open this car park continues. Whilst our Petition has been rejected without any right of appeal, planning legislation enables resolution of car parking issues to be made a condition of planning approval. Please comment accordingly on this planning application to add weight to our campaign to open the locked car park off Herbert Avenue.

Freedom of Information Request re Car Park Agreement

I have had a response to my Freedom of Information Request for a Copy of the alleged Agreement between T&W Council and Neighbours in Herbert Avenue concerning the closure of the car park when the Changing Rooms are not in use.

The response is that Telford anhd Wrekin Council do not hold this information. In other words no such written Agreement exists.

I will continue to pursue an Appeal against our petition to open the car park being rejected.

Petition rejected

Telford and Wrekin Council have rejected our petition to open the Changing Rooms Car Park despite the overwhelming number of residents in favour. I have appealed the decision and requested the option of addressing a meeeting of the Cabinet to overturn the decision. In the meantime I will escalate the media campaign to have the Car Park opened on a permanaent basis. I'll keep you all updated on progress. If you have any other ideas on how to further our campaign, please do not hesaitate to copntact me.

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