These are my friends Pia and Ashe. We love the Liberties and are raising kids here despite all its shortcomings: traffic, a plague of student housing, chronic lack of green spaces, poor air quality etc. Then on Sunday we walked down with a ladder and peered over that wall

I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden. I still remember the thrill of the moment when Mary turns the key and opens the door and finds this secret green lovely place. It’s not quite as romantic to put your phone through the gap beside a locked steel gate but look

No filter, just a lovely hidden garden right under our noses, the plane trees in their October glory. So we got the ladder. And we made a video ending with the planning notice on the pillar beside the gate. Because @HSElive wants to develop this. Not into a community space,

Or a forest classroom (for one of the five schools within a stone’s throw of here that haven’t got a blade of grass between them), a forest park, or a historical visitor attraction (Arthur Guinness, the Bewleys and the Disneys all founded this place). But into a carpark. In 2020

During a pandemic, when neighbourhoods like ours are on their knees, biodiversity is withering and our carbon emissions are soaring. Our health authority wants to make this a car park. We say no. It’s time to build back better. Please add your voice http://chng.it/YvqtpNLk