[Discuss] Barbecues - a burning issue

[Anne Garvey]

  Dear Carolyn

This is very dispiriting. The burns are not small and not occasional , Jesus
Green is covered with them. I and many others do not agree that barbecues
are what the spaces are for. They are essentially polluting to other users ,
in a visit to the green last week playing tennis there were I counted 25
groups of picnickers. Only five had barbecues and they were all burning the
grass.

Also the rule is no fires. If you want to introduce them you have to
campaign to have the law changed.

And how can you compare the large space at Wandlebury with the hugely more
dense Jesus Green situation?


Yours

AG


On 13/7/10 16:08, "Carolin Gohler" <ceo at cambridgeppf.org> wrote:

> 
> Dear all,
> 
> This follows CambridgePPF's response to the BBQ discussion and our letter to
> the Editor of Cambridge News earlier on this month.
> 
> Our version of the letter can be seen if you follow the weblink:
> http://news.cambridgeppf.org/2010/07/bbq-and-cambridge-greens.html
> 
> Cambridge News' journalist linked all back to Jesus Green.
> 
> Certainly more debate needs to happen and ideas pooled looking at city-wide
> solutions.
> 
> Kind regards  Carolin
> 
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> John Lawton wrote:
>> Oh dear, here we go again, this is not helpful:
>>  
>> http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Special-barbecue-areas-would-stop-illega
>> l-fires.htm 
>>  
>> I had thought that the management groups of Midsummer Common / Jesus Green
>> had decided that their common land in central Cambridge isn't suitable for
>> bbq's, and other areas such as Lammas land should be used.
>>  
>> How long is this going to go on being re-hashed?  Can't we just say: no
>> barbecues on Jesus Green?
>>  
>> John 
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