I AM horrified as to what is happening in Rowntree Park. The housing development was the first detrimental thing.
Every time I go in more trees have been cut down, also hedges. The magnificent willow tree near the bridge has gone. Whose idea was it to fence off the islands on the lake? These islands provide somewhere for birds and young to be safe from children, crows, magpies and seagulls, which regularly swoop on the lake and fly off with the young birds. If the object is to discourage the geese from breeding, local people know it is the mallard and water hens who breed on the islands, hardly ever the geese.
The park is not only for people but also wildlife. It is being made sterile.
York is very short on parks. Please stop ruining this one.
S Stockton,
Bishopthorpe Road,
York.
Updated: 11:27 Friday, June 15, 2001
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