All members/volunteers welcome to attend our meeting on Tuesday 12th March to discuss the issue of flooding and Rowntree Park. The meetings is at the York Explore Rowntree Park Reading cafe.
The park has been closed for nearly 3 months and this poses issues for the general park users, ourselves as a charity and other park stakeholders. The meeting is a chance to find out more on the issues the park faces, systems in place, what’s going wrong, and suggest ways to improve things…(more details below).
As the park is closed at 7pm, please contact abigail on hello@rowntreepark.org.uk if you’d like to attend as we need to tell you how to enter and know who we are expecting!
Meeting info:
- An overview of the (three) reasons the park closes.
- A brief (very) history of park flooding and increased frequency of flooding in recent decades.
- A review of the parks flood protection and pumping systems.
- A quick reflection on the condition of the flood wall including consequences of its failure.
- impacts of closures and flooding on FRP activity, income and spaces.
- impact of closures on local community, tennis club and Explore
- impact of flooding on park infrastructure, particularly the heritage features and listed structures.
- Discussion on engineering and management solutions to reduce impacts of flooding/minimise time water is in the park/keep park open.
- how can FRP help find and obtain funding to support cyc to make improvement.
