Love Parks Week starts tomorrow – and FixMyStreet can also be used to fix your park

Park by Barbara Mazz
Love Parks Week logo

21st to 29th July is Love Parks Week – a campaign that raises awareness of the importance of green spaces in local communities.

This year, they are focusing on “healthy” parks – that is to say, parks that are safe, clean, well-maintained, a home for wildlife, and a hub for the local community.

The Love Parks website features a quick online health check which you can complete for your local facilities.

If your local park isn’t up to scratch, this is a great week to report it via FixMyStreet. You might think that you can only report problems on streets and roads, but in fact the automatic geolocation function, and the zoomable, draggable maps mean that you can also pinpoint issues very precisely, even if they’re on open ground.

So, if your playground equipment is rusty, the pond is full of algae, or the dog bin’s overflowing, you know where to turn.

 

Image by Barbara Mazz, used with thanks under the Creative commons licence.