Funding pledge for parks ‘will not solve crisis’

MS - 18 February 2019

A GOVERNMENT announcement of £13 million for parks is not enough to reverse “chronic underfunding,” critics warned yesterday.

Councils will be handed money to repair playgrounds, create new parks and redevelop derelict land.

Communities Secretary James Brokenshire said the cash will provide “precious spaces for all of us to get together, to exercise and to play... See more