Half of UK has lost access to community spaces such as parks, social clubs, libraries or post offices since 2023, research finds
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/uk-social-space-park-post-office-community-5HjdYzW_2/
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Half of UK has lost access to community spaces such as parks, social clubs, libraries or post offices since 2023, research finds
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/uk-social-space-park-post-office-community-5HjdYzW_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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Councils can’t afford to maintain stuff, selling it off to private interests so they can cover SEND and adult social care so that private interests can rent it back to the taxpayers or repurpose it for some commercial gain and the council will gladly approve the planning.
This ofc a bot post, they are going nuts putting down the UK the last 2 weeks… And you want people to belive because immigrants are living in them?
Instead of the truth that Billionares keep killing all our high streets and suck up all our wealth while paying no tax? Leaving nothing to fund these places?
No? OK must be because of brown and trans people….
Adding post offices makes the measure used by the headline seem pretty pointless.
Though the general trend is likely right.
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Always handy to see the full post history if you think “bot” account or are curious about a posters comment history.
Reddit is astro-turfed to fuck (always has been but it seems to have gotten worse in the last few years).
Even the parks that remain are being gutted. I was driving by where I grew up and went past the park I used to play on as a kid and it has been “refurbished” by them removing all the equipment and replacing it with 5% of what was there before, all exclusively focused on the smallest kids.. Gone is the rope net pyramid, the slides, the swings, see saw, springers, roundabout, monkey bars etc etc. And then we’ll act confused why more kids are obese.
There’s money available to use on services like this https://prideinplace.campaign.gov.uk/
Shame it seems most of whats going is council related and the cost of living crisis
We keep allowing houses to be built on green belt which is a joke, plenty of uninhabited run down places that could be knocked down and built on instead
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My town is an outlier, we have a park, library, swimming pool and post office as well as social clubs. The demographics here are much older than the UK average and we have a lot of sheltered housing for the elderly, so I’m guessing that’s who’s using then and keeping them viable.
The local park got taken over by the local school and then had a fence put around it and stopped everyone going on it. Such a shame. now kids play in pub car parks and such and people wonder why.
I’m sure all the Reform councils will make this situation much better
Only half of us pay tax, so I guess it’s inevitable.
Asylum accommodation has gone up though – so every cloud.
“park, social club, library or post office”
If post office is included, add hairdressers, pubs and Tesco express
-> More community spaces than ever🎉