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6. No Firm Conclusion

So, what to say in response to the proposed cuts?

• They look like they’ve been chosen in a cursory way;
• There’s no evidence of how they were identified, and how they’ve been weighed up against other possible cuts;
• We don’t know what other possibilities were considered

It may be too late to send them back to the drawing board. But if I could, …

• I’d ask for a new way of funding parks and outdoor activities;
• Through limited corporate sponsorship;
• Through public sector funding, e.g. sport, health, congestion charging, etc;
• through community-based initiative, including asset transfers, land trusts, service agreements, and so on.