(full text of the deputation)

• We would like Leeds City Council to commit to not selling the fields. If they’re sold, it puts their future in the hands of developers, not the public.
• Increasingly rare spaces like this are invaluable in helping people manage their health and fitness.
• Crossgates and Whinmoor Ward has a shortage of green space as defined in the Core Strategy. That space is being further eroded (Grimes Dyke constitutes a loss of 4.3ha of amenity space in the ward in the last 18 months alone).
• Other sites in the green wedge have been safeguarded from development despite not being publicly accessible (or, in our opinion, half as beautiful as these fields)

  

• The fields are the setting of Red Hall House, itself a heritage asset. Building constitutes damage to this setting.
• Errors have been made in the scoring (which we have pointed out to the Site Allocations team, but they have rejected our corrections as they were outside a statutory consultation period. The last consultation period was fully two years ago)
• The fields are still to be considered in greenspace surplus and deficit analysis, despite their planned downgrade.
• This is our only green space within walking distance – of any typology .