On the eve of the Council’s Executive Board meeting tomorrow, the Yorkshire Evening Post has spoken out fiercely on the Woodhouse Moor concrete barbecue zone.
Leeds City Council, it says in its editorial, “has taken fence-sitting to amazing new levels: it has made it an Olympic sport”.
The paper is unequivocal: “Our message to the council is this: it’s a crackpot idea.”
Even if the senior councillors are listening, even if the decision has not already been taken, the principle of meaningful democratic engagement is too important to be undermined; and Woodhouse Moor will not be abandoned.
To read the full editorial, click here.