Perspective: Passion for the Park Brought Us Together ; After Her Local Park Was Threatened, Emma Woolf Sprang Into Action. Now She has Brought About a Radical Change in the Way the City's Green Spaces Are Managed. Peter Bacon and Nick Booth Report

Birmingham Post › January 26, 2005

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Across the road from where Emma Woolf lives is Cotteridge Park.

It is part of Birmingham's Victorian heritage, an invaluable green lung of 22 acres of rolling lawns, established trees, play and sports areas.

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Perspective: Passion for the Park Brought Us Together ; After Her Local Park Was Threatened, Emma Woolf Sprang Into Action. Now She has Brought About a Radical Change in the Way the City's Green Spaces Are Managed. Peter Bacon and Nick Booth Report

Emma spends a lot of time in it, and so do her children. But it was only by accident, back in 1997, that she found out it was going to be 'decommissioned'.

'We never found out what decommissioning meant,' she recalls, 'but we did know that it meant a withdrawal of services.'

Emma felt strongly that this should not happen - and she was not the only one. Friends and neighbours gathered round, some hadn't known eac...

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