Newark Sports Association launch Watch This Space campaign to save and protect open green spaces
A campaign to protect and save open green spaces has been launched by Newark Sports Association.
Watch This Space — which is currently applying for funding — hopes to identify, publicise and protect such spaces in and around Newark.
The community is urged to get involved by nominating spaces to be protected by providing evidence on the campaign’s website for at risk areas.
The campaign’s website is also somewhere the local authority can turn to, to demonstrate where they have created green and open space that promotes participation in healthy recreation.
A Newark Sports Association spokesman said: “Too often local communities learn too late that green and open space is going to be built on. Watch This Space will be able to map all the green and open space in the Newark area and once there, people will be able to track and record the sites’ development.
“The local authority might want to demonstrate how the loss of space is being mitigated by creating more space in an area.”
Sites deemed at risk by members of the community include The Stadium on Elm Avenue, a controversial development which has been granted planning permission, as well as, Cedar Avenue playing field, Lincoln Road playing field and the former BMX track on Bowbridge Road — all of which have registered planning applications.
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