Food dumping in Alexandra Park…

A Cleaner, Safer, Greener Alexandra Park.

(Taken from Dave Saunders post on Facebook 21.03/2016)
Another treasured pet dog became ill after eating food in the park last weekend. She is still in danger 5 days later.

I was in the park today and came across some very mouldy rice and chunks of bread in the lake. The rice was eaten by several dogs.

At the Friends meeting on Tuesday we decided to take action with a strategy to promote better behaviour through education and encouraging reporting of issues.

Over feeding the wildlife and food dumping are not the only problems. Dog fouling persists and some dogs are a menace. Motorcycles zoom around the park and there can be anti social behaviour.

The aim is to educate and ask park users to help. Education will be about the issues – and -about how to report problems and summon assistance as well as the penalties for littering/dog fouling/failure to control a dog etc..

We will be promoting Cleaner, Safer, Greener online, with signs and posters in the park and by contacting community and faith groups in the area to ask that they spread the word.

Besides reporting problems to the council through their website, there is a parks security service who respond rapidly when called. I never knew this, but these guys have similar powers to PCSO’s and the supervisors have trained dogs. For more serious emergencies, people can use 101 or 999.
I think that raising awareness of this will enable more people to flag up problems, and act as a deterrent to bad behaviour.

I’ll be preparing a proposal for the next Friends meeting and welcome your ideas and comments.