[Madhatter]

Having visited a few parks in Lancashire with my ex gf, I'm not at all impressed. You have what once were the best parks I'd seen, I can sort of imagine them all clean, neat tidy, well looked after with nice park features, I can look at them now and see it. But in reality they're terrible and if somethings not done, you'll lose what is left.
They, the councils act like nobody uses the parks, but whenever I've been in them I've seen lots of people, even in winter.
I know it's out of your area but bacup park with it's fairy dell and cascading stream with waterfalls is falling apart, even though just across the park is the park gardens nursery.