Exmouth Splash project?
” … It is likely that there will be more tensions over the use of public space as councils across the country eye up private partnerships. “We’re seeing a lot of parks looking at introducing facilities that generate income,” said Drew Bennellick, head of landscape and natural heritage at the Heritage Lottery Fund. “Whether it’s Go Ape, crazy golf sites, multi-use football facilities that are floodlit, or cafes – they’re all exploring ways to potentially generate income to offset the cost of running the sites.”
A report by the fund last year estimated that 45% of local authorities are considering either selling parks and green spaces or transferring their management …”
East Devon Watch 
Well we do know, from an FOI, that the open air play space for kids, both pay and free, will be reduced to approx 23% of the existing open space. Not so much charging for parks but replacing parks, in Exmouth’s case, with flats, and a cinema and retail for which in the latter two cases, there is no evidence of need. The need for flats is not known as these were slipped in after promises that there would be none.
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and pay to live in them
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