By: Peter D Cox

Peter D Cox — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:59:51 +0000

Another excellently made exposure of Cardiff Council’s inability to connect policies: it sells/gives away ratepayers’ assets (land in an historic park at Sophia Garden for Cricket, at Leckwith, most recently to bail out a bankrupt (?) football club) without any idea that it can reap policy returns for largesse with our assets.
If the council had said to CCFC, “land for your speculative hotel development in return for a fairtrade/healthy food policy at your stadium”, how long would the “yes’ have taken them?
And for public events that cost us so much (lost use of parks/public spaces, clean up afterwards etc) how about the council similarly applying such a policy for the Castle/Bute Parks/Oval Basin? Do we really want our burger vans from England, when a low-food miles policy would suggest that the Indian food bar from Grangetown is not only arguably better food, but making a contribution to Wales’ ‘One Wales One Planet” aspiratons.
Cardiff Council should try it: visionary, connected policy making. It’s not hard.

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By: Peter D Cox