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YEP Editorial: 29 April 2009

Moor is not an extension of campus

On the 29 April the Yorkshire Evening Post lead with a scathing editorial on Council proposals to sink concrete blocks onto Woodhouse Moor to accommodate barbecues. Part of the editorial is quoted below, with the kind permission of the editor.
“It is scarcely credible that Leeds City Council has reacted [...]

Problems ahead on the roads

Barbeques are illegal in all the city’s parks. So if a designated barbeque area gets built on Woodhouse Moor, it will be the only place in Leeds where people can have a barbeque in a park without fear of being prosecuted. The inevitable consequence will be that the Woodhouse Moor Designated Barbeque Area will [...]

Consultation Event

If the designated barbeque area ever gets built, it’s going to need a name. The current favourites (which nobody will admit to having suggested) are “The Penny Ewens Designated Barbeque Area” and “The Jamie Matthews Designated Barbeque Area”. We rejected the idea of having a total ban on having a name on the ground that [...]

Whose idea was it anyway ?

According to Greek myth, the goddess Athena was born fully grown. In modern times we’re much too sophisticated to believe that such a thing could have happened. But apparently we’d be wrong. For our councillors are now telling us that the proposal to build designated barbeque areas on Woodhouse Moor just appeared, and had [...]

‘Barb’ed Letter to Councillors

Hello Councillor,
I have been a resident of Woodhouse and Hyde Park for nearly 30 years.
I have noticed that recently Leeds City Council have been increasingly treating Woodhouse Moor and the adjacent land as though it is their private property and making important decisions that affect the local residents without bothering to consult them. Most of [...]

HIGH-HANDED COUNCILLORS SILENCE OPPOSITION TO BBQs ON THE MOOR

I attended the recent INWAC Meeting on 2nd April, 09 and came away extremely disappointed by the way in which the meeting was conducted. There were a number of points that showed the behaviour of some INWAC Councillors to be unseemly.

1. The Chairman of the meeting, Councillor Monaghan, was curt to several members of [...]

Null and Void

We were advised that 10,000 questionnaires would be delivered to households within 800m of Woodhouse Moor. I live within that perimeter, it is now 15/04/09, and I am still waiting, as are most of my neighbours. I know of precisely 1 who has received it. Something is up. Options follow:

Council Officers lied (which I do [...]

Gerrymandered – That’s John Illingworth’s view

“It is interesting to compare and contrast the current council “consultation” on Woodhouse Moor with a previous council “consultation” in Kirkstall in 2006 on the future of the Kirkstall Mills. Both operations apparently had the same purpose, which was to solicit public support for something that the council’s officers had already decided to do. Neither [...]

INWAC stifles debate on barbeque areas

Local residents left last night’s INWAC meeting outraged at the way debate on the barbeque proposal was stifled. People had gone to the meeting to hear councillors respond to the community’s assertion that barbeque areas are a bad idea. But only three members of the community were allowed to speak. One of those prevented from [...]

The Council Has Concrete Plans for the Moor

Local residents came to Wrangthorn Church Hall this afternoon to protest against Leeds City Council’s plan to establish barbeque areas on the Moor. The plan involves sinking forty concrete slabs to a depth of 60cm on the most attractive part of the Moor in the hope that barbeque-ers will use the slabs to barbeque on [...]

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