The Mayor of London has launched ‘Help a London Park’, a programme at designed to help him in his goal to protect London's ‘green spaces’.
The programme will allow Londoners to vote for their favourite most deserving parks to receive £400,000 of improvement work. The money comes from efficiency savings from the previous administration’s publicity budget.
Ten of London’s parks will be selected in the public vote, from a list of 47 to receive a share of the £6 million funding. The Mayor will also award a single grant of up to £2 million to one large park for a makeover. This grant will decided by the Mayor rather than by public vote, with advice of a panel of experts.
West London's representatives in the vote are:
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Brent River Park (London Borough of Brent)
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Brent River Park (London Borough of Ealing)
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Byron Recreation Ground
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Hammersmith Park
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Little Wormwood Scrubs Park
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Pinkwell Park
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Redlees Park
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South Park
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Southall Manor House Grounds
Londoners can vote to choose which parks get the £400,000 simply by going to www.london.gov.uk/parksvote. Voting closes on Friday 30th January 2009. Lookwest urges all its readers to visit and vote. Let's grab the cash for West London.
