- Target:
- Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality.
- Region:
- Canada
Thank you very much everyone! The petition was presented to council on August 2, and coincided with a presentation to council on the benefits of tennis! So that was good timing. As to the actual result, we'll have to wait and see, but please keep promoting these courts at every opportunity.
Fort Needham Park is a very popular North End destination for families. It is the North End's "central park" -- a large and relatively unstructured green space that offers opportunities for everything a community could want: summer strolls and picnics in the shade, sports fields and tennis courts, an off-leash area for dogs, and of course the Halifax Explosion memorial site.
An important part of the recently approved Master Plan for the park is to remove the tennis courts (for eventual relocation years from now to an area now occupied by the Needham Centre). The courts are to be removed as part of phase one in the plan, during 2016 (http://www.halifax.ca/Parks/fort-needham/documents...)
Like many elements of the Master Plan, this idea promotes aesthetics and design over the practical needs of families who use the park daily. The North End is enjoying a boom in young families and now is the time to promote sports and fitness in our parks.
As a proud resident of HRM and a believer in all the North End has to offer, I urge Regional Council to reconsider the Fort Needham Park Master Plan so that the existing tennis courts are either maintained or improved to include a modern multi-court sports area.
The Save the Fort Needham Tennis Courts! petition to Halifax Regional Council, Halifax Regional Municipality. was written by Ian Currie and is in the category City & Town Planning at GoPetition.