'Sheffield needs its green spaces more than an adventure park' - Reader's letter

At the moment I’m incensed about the blatant disregard being shown to the walkers and cyclists who use our park with comments about footpaths being closed for safety reasons, and the cycle tracks (which cost £2,500,000) being bulldozed and “probably” re enstated in phase 2 ( i.e after the Luge has been constructed).

All Skyline thinks of is the paying features, but they are a company needing profits.

Pitsmoor is a poverty stricken area. We value our free park, its paths and greenery.

Now the traffic sounds vanish and birds sing.

Later we’ll have to hear squeals and shouts from high gondoliers in the sky where our missing tree tops waved.

We’ll have to pay to use the luge, and in five years the free car park will charge us.

Security lights on tall posts will scare off the bats and owls which inhabit our wood.

When eventually the baby trees begin to grow, the bicycles may swoop round nature instead of riding on bare soil.

There will be hidden views and places for nests and insects again.

Why do I care? I do because when I was teaching in inner London, a concrete jungle surrounded me.

I only survived by returning home to my tiny house by Parkwood Springs each weekend to breathe trees.

Every summer I visited my parents in America and five or six Year 11 students took over my house.

They couldn’t get over the greenery and freedom to walk under big trees just outside the house.

Several came back to university here.

We need our green spaces, please help us protect ours.

Mary Wadeson

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