May I ask, to which Nonsuch Mr Horry (Letters, March 1) is referring, since I can only assume it is not the park where I walk my dog every day, along with hundreds of others doing the same thing, not to mention cyclists, walkers, strollers, etc?
I also have to assume that it cannot be the park where I take my family every weekend, along with hundreds of other families?
Joking aside, if it is really true that Nonsuch Park only costs £300,000 a year to maintain, then it is an absolute bargain - that is £150,000 per local authority, which translates to about a tenner per council tax payer. When you consider that each of us is being forced to pay an extra £20 a year to fund the three-week disaster known as the Olympics, that sounds good value to me. Three-hundred acres of glorious, open parkland for us and our children to experience wildlife, wildflowers and real open space; for £10 a year, that must be the best value for money you could name.
Mr Horry says it should become a golf course; there are plenty of golf courses but once the park is gone, it is lost to the public forever. My family and I don't play golf and nor does anyone we know - but almost everyone we know in Cheam uses Nonsuch Park.
It must be saved, for present users and for future generations.
Melanie Eskenazi Cheam
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