[Neil]

The Parks Dept is massively under funded and under staffed. I agree they do well with what the Councillors give them but have you had a walk around some of those parks recently? Some of the paths in Oakhill are terrible and should have been re built years ago, the ponds and waterfall haven't worked for years and a very small group of volunteers have been trying to repair them with a tiny budget. The bowling Pavillion in Lowerfold needs pulling down and it had a fair chance of being rebuilt except another HBC department caused a £40,000 funding bid to fail because they acted too slowly. I could go on but won't.

Green flag sounds good but to me it should be a minimum standard all Hyndburn's parks should be at for starters and not treated as some wonderful achievement.