| Wandsworth Council's 'tax on fun' |
| Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:50 |
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The Evening Standard has reported Wandsworth Council plans to charge £2.50 entry to the Adventure Playground in Battersea Park. There is a petition calling for the Wandsworth council to abandon the proposals: www.tinyurl.com/pay-to-play-petition Wandsworth's only Labour MP, Sadiq Khan, who was a Wandsworth Councillor for 12 years said, "This is unbelievably mean spirited, even for Wandsworth Council. "It will be children from the poorest families who lose out. "As families are squeezed by the Tory-led government’s cuts, Wandsworth should be promoting low cost healthy activities, like those on offer at Battersea Park, not driving poorer children and families away. "Wandsworth is slashing services while finding more and more ways to bleed families dry. Council rents are amongst the highest in London, parking permits have increased by a whopping 60% in three years, and a library in the most deprived part of the borough is threatened with closure. "This is the reality of life in a flagship Tory borough in 2011." |
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