[Discuss] Barbecues - a burning issue

[ian manning]

I fear this is rehashing old ground, but I've had plently of barbeques on
Jesus Green with disposables and not burned the ground.  The comments below,
no doubt typed in anger, are pretty offensive to the large number of us who
have BBQs without offending anyone.

As I've said before, enforcement of inconsiderate use should also happen and
would be something I support.

Ian

On 13 July 2010 11:14, Anne Garvey <annemgarvey at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  It is appalling to inflict barbecues on the users of Jesus Green.
> Barbecues are a tiny but destructive minority . All other users,
> sportspeople, children, picnickers in this small space should really not
> have to breathe in barbecue smoke. It is not a wild area but a mown
> cultivated space and very heavily populated. Barbecue smoke is harmful
> intrusive and I surely am not the only person finding it disgusting to smell
> cooking of innumerable cheap battery chicken and burgers. Clouds of smoke
> drifting over other people using the green is just not on. Why do the
> authorities insist on perceiving Jesus Greenas some amazing wilderness? It
> is a very cultivated and urban and sports area – there should be much more
> encouragement I think of sports actitivites for young people, a far better
> way of using the area than contaminating other people’s air and simply
> sitting about eating.
>
> The writer is quite right. The lack of guidance with the new signs ( where
> the temporary ones were completely clear no barbecues ) creates a grey area
> where there has to be a discussion after every intervention, with people
> possibly believing that ‘fires’ doesn’t mean barbecues, or saying they think
> that.
>
> Fires are prohibited by the byelaws. The byelaws are passed by Parliament.
> If the Council wants to change that to allow barbecues they have to go back
> to parliament and change it . Meanwhile they are in defiance of their own
> rules in not enforcing it. It is actually not ‘ up for discussion” it’s a
> reality . That is if you consider a barbecue a fire, which the Council
> members clearly don’t.  I think Cambridge would look ridiculous arguing this
> to change their own byelaw just to accommodate a tiny group of people who up
> to now have done appalling damage.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 13/7/10 09:40, "John Lawton" <chair at soscambridge.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Oh dear, here we go again, this is not helpful:
> >
> >
> http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Special-barbecue-areas-would-stop-illegal
> > -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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