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RHS SALFORD GARDEN TO OPEN IN MAY – BUT WILL SALFORD PEOPLE BOYCOTT IT?
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Star date: 18th April 2021 POST-DEER CULL WILL SALFORD PEOPLE GO TO THE NEW RHS GARDEN The £35million RHS Garden Bridgewater is to open on 18th May, and tickets go on sale tomorrow, 19th April, with Salford people getting free access on Tuesdays for the first year, after a massive £19million investment by Salford City Council. The big question is whether the promised boycott by Salford people, following the horrendous deer cull by the RHS last year, will happen. Full details here...
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Back in November, the Royal Horticultural Society admitted to culling by 'rifle', nine roe deer at the new Salford site of the RHS Garden Bridgewater to "limit the significant potential damage to plants, shrubs and trees" and to, weirdly, "maintain healthy herd sizes"... (see here) The Salford community was having none of it and the backlash was immediate with over 12,000 people signing a petition to stop any repetition. Local Tory councillors declared themselves "astonished" and "appalled", dozens of people on social media declared they would boycott the Gardens, and Salford Online is still refusing to publicise any activities at the £35million venue, which was supported by £19million of funding from cash-strapped Salford City Council. Now, the RHS Garden in Worsley is set to open on 18th May, with tickets going on sale tomorrow via the RHS website. Currently the website doesn't state the cost of entry but Salford people can gain free access every Tuesday for the first year. "RHS Garden Bridgewater is the result of years of hard work by a dream team of designers, gardeners, contractors and many, many others and we are all enormously proud of what we have created" says Sue Biggs, RHS Director General "Together with our partners and donors, including Salford City Council and The Peel Group, we are thrilled to finally be able to celebrate this monumental achievement on 18 May." Tom Stannard, Salford City Council's Chief Executive, adds that "In much the same way as its namesake the Bridgewater Canal put Salford on the map in 1761, we expect RHS Garden Bridgewater to do the same in the modern day." At the moment the RHS Garden is only on the map for deer culling. Will this change? Can the Garden get over the PR nightmare that was 'Who killed Bambi?' Find out next month… For further details on the RHS Garden – click here For more details on the deer cull – click here
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William CUBILLO wrote
at 17:22:35 on 26 May 2021 |
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| I was planning on joining th RHS at Bridgewater until I learned of this brutal culling of Roe deer on land that they had roamed for centuries. Disgraceful for an organisation that is responsible for being in harmony with nature. Saying sorry after the event is hardly sufficient, heads should roll. |
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Alison Walker wrote
at 09:40:50 on 18 May 2021 |
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| I certainly shall not be visiting the gardens. Or anything else connected to the RHS. That land could have been left for the deer who had roamed it for hundreds of years and for the people of Salford, who enjoyed using it. Totally sickening that RHS gardens are being advertised today, without a mention about the poor deer that they "culled" just to make way for it! |
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Brian F Kirkham wrote
at 12:42:26 on 21 April 2021 |
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| With £19 Million of Council tax money going into this scheme...council tax payers should be notified as to what they're getting out of it. I Know the scout association were moved onto adjacent premises, but what's happened to the large stretch of water on that site? once used by the anglers ? These developments should be fully disclosed to the city if public cash is being used to build them. As for Mr Cogswell's comment, I take it a deer sanctuary near to RHS Worsley is being built ? |
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Kenny wrote
at 09:53:19 on 19 April 2021 |
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| 19million investment but, huge cut in Cities services. |
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Arnold Rimmer wrote
at 22:50:48 on 18 April 2021 |
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| Nothing special about the deer culls. You can literally buy the deer meat from dunham massey and tatton Park and people still go there and the meat is very nice.
Will the meat be sold at bridgewater rhs? It's a bit closer. |
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at 22:40:29 on 18 April 2021 |
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| What's the price of Peel Holdings cooperation in this venture? The council make sure they get the green belt they want . Worsley was a far better place when it didn't have the twin evils of Salford Council and Peel Holdings destroying it. |
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The Truth Hurts wrote
at 20:48:12 on 18 April 2021 |
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| Pity the council didn't plough the cash they spent on this posh garden centre on doing up Buile Hill Mansion and Park --- then- people from Salford could have visited EVERY DAY FOR FREE. |
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thumper wrote
at 18:28:07 on 18 April 2021 |
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| I'm not letting my mate, Bambi, go there!! |
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The Watcher on the shore wrote
at 17:39:58 on 18 April 2021 |
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| Have you noticed that people are always sorry after they've been caught out ? I think it's safe to assume that previously they didn't give a f **k !
This is just a general observation but applies equally to the R H S, the town hall mafia,Boris and his Eton Rifles. I always like the " qualifying statements", where they swear black was white and their grasp of the English language so tangential that was " certainly not what was meant".
I'm sure l heard a collective sigh of relief emanating from the civic bunker on the announcement of the Star"s demise. Thanks Steve, you were there when nobody would listen. But in the words of Don McLean," Their not listening still". |
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Salford Star wrote
at 17:18:29 on 18 April 2021 |
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| See Joyce's comment below - think you have to take proof of a Salford address - so Boothstown yes, the rest No! |
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Joyce mcdonald wrote
at 15:40:49 on 18 April 2021 |
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| Could you please tell me if people living in Boothtown, Tyldesley, Leigh, Atherton able to gain free admission.
Kind Regards. |
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Beatrix Potter wrote
at 14:10:40 on 18 April 2021 |
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| Ironic that Salford Labour pretend to be Greener than Green with every passing week drawing closer to the local elections , perhaps they didn’t want to upset wealthy property developers from making donations to this £35 million pound garden centre weeks before the deer cull , or the nomination of a councillor as a wildlife champion Councillor Nelson in Salford by the Mayor who supports bulldozing of wildlife habitat that deer thrive in , don’t make me laugh it’s all about divide and conquer with these shitzers , Salford labour don’t have any interest in Deer or any form of wildlife let’s be clear on that , |
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Doug Hall wrote
at 13:17:19 on 18 April 2021 |
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| Unfortunately people will attend this glorified garden centre because most won't realise what a callous, wildlife hating organisation it is. |
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Alan Cogswell wrote
at 13:08:26 on 18 April 2021 |
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| It is time for Salford Star to promote RHS Bridgwater and for the editors to stop believing they have the right to deny readers their right to information on this terrific project. The Roe deer should not have been culled but RHS admitted its mistake and have put in place measures to ensure the mistake does not happen again. |
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