Save the Green Heart of Our Community

Silvia Ceccarelli is organizing this fundraiser.

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We are raising funds on behalf of our community in North West London to save a beautiful, natural, open space from privatisation and hectares of toxic flood-lit Astroturf.

We want stars not floodlights!!

Approved plans for Clitterhouse Playing Fields (CPF) will:

Diminish public grassland to just 10% of its original coverage
Replace over 3 hectares of natural grass with toxic, fenced-off, flood-lit, pay-to-play Astroturf
Significantly harm local wildlife, the environment, and pose an increased risk to health and flooding
Disproportionately restrict Freedom of use and access
Leave existing and exponentially growing population with less public accessible green space than ever

We need your help to stop this. Parks are for everyone. Please HELP us fund our legal defence.

All funding will go to paying for the legal costs of Richard Buxton Solicitors who are preparing for Judicial Review.

Your generous support will help us SAVE this sacred open green space and ensure our voices are heard!

Our goals, including VAT, are as follows;

Goal 1 - £2,520 - Advice on grounds & potential

Our campaign will be a one goal-at-a-time process, but with your help today we CAN DO THIS! Thank you so much for reading this far and for your very kind support. It feels wonderful and heart warming to know there are people who care.

Community Value of CPF NW London

I have spent my youth playing in this field and enjoying the free open space with my school, family and friends. I would love for current and future families, students, adults, the elderly and children to have the same opportunity and freedom to play and enjoy nature and tranquility in an ever growing urban society.

CPF, a unique grassland with historical significance and a site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation is being privatised and transformed by developer Argent Related by turning it into a professional level pay-to-play sports facility. This public asset, crucial to the community will lose approximately 90% of its original green coverage to toxic, fenced-off, flood-lit Astroturf and facilities. Barnet council’s disposal of this Metropolitan Open Land will result in noticeable overcrowding, noise and light pollution.

Parks aren't about profit, they're for everyone. The huge redevelopment will prevent activities such as dog walking, cricket, rounders, yoga, kite flying, picnics, kicking a ball about or simply taking some time out of hectic London life to be in nature.

If the pandemic taught us one thing, it is how vital open green public spaces are for our physical, mental and community wellbeing. London has been famous for its parks and green open spaces, but in recent years it has seen a rise in the privatisation, commercialisation and plastification of such sacred places. This is a plea to not let another public green space bite the dust!

For more information visit

https://www.keepclitterhousegreen.com/

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