- Target:
- Aberdeen City Council, ASCEF, Scottish Parliament
- Region:
- United Kingdom
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Despite widespread local opposition, Aberdeen City Council has voted on 19 May 2010 to fill in its only green city centre space to create a vast square.
The creation will be the end of the historic Denburn Valley, the end of 80 previously listed beautiful trees which clean the city centre's are, and which will cost over £140 million according to current estimates.
The city can find money for this plan it says, but yet cannot fill its many potholed roads and it has cut many programmes for people with special needs and carers.
WE THE UNDERSIGNED oppose Aberdeen City Council's vote in support of the ASCEF / Ian Wood proposal to level Union Terrace Gardens.
We contest the legitimacy of the City Council's vote, having been promised in the consultation stage that the project would not go ahead if the majority did not support it - the majority of votes counted were against it We believe that the plans previously proposed by Peacock Visual Arts for the Gardens are less invasive, less expensive, and are more to scale with the city centre.
We also question the ethics and legality of the promotion of the Ian Wood / ASCEF proposal. Additionally, the environmental impact of the proposal is unacceptable.
The Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen and Peacock support petition to Aberdeen City Council, ASCEF, Scottish Parliament was written by Suzanne Kelly and is in the category Environment at GoPetition.