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  • About
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  • Plants
  • Mammals
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  • The Future of Birley Spa
  • Insects, Arthropods, Molluscs and Spiders
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Our Campaign

Our campaign to save Birley Spa began in the summer of 2018, following an enquiry from a former resident of Hackenthorpe who happened to visit the Spa and was dismayed to see the state of it, neglected and disused for nearly 10 years. He was informed by the council that it was about to be sold. The Friends of Birley Spa was formed shortly afterwards and the battle began.


3/23/2019 3 Comments

The Pitch

Yesterday we had a meeting with the council and at last got to present our business plan.

Our plan is quite comprehensive, including restoration of the building and development of the site as a whole to becoming a unique heritage site accessible to all.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it was well received. The councillors were impressed with our ideas and our obvious passion towards seeing them realised.

Although this is indeed positive news, we still have several hurdles to cross. We have more meetings to have and many more councillors to impress. But we will bask for a moment in our success. We are not certain what hoops we still have to jump through, but we have all upped our intake of spinach, just in case the last round is a best of 3 arm wrestling competition! (It worked for Popeye!)

Date of next meeting to be confirmed.

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3 Comments
Margaret Hines
3/24/2019 12:14:23 am

Keep up the pressure.

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Christine King
3/24/2019 10:06:51 pm

Well done! Keep it up. People who care about the city are watching what you do. You're doing a great job

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Chris
3/24/2019 10:39:48 pm

Well done...

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