Welcome to the Walks!

Help us protect this

This website is about the Walks, a public park in King's Lynn, Norfolk (see streetmap or official map). The aim of this site is to improve the project. We will find out what's planned and tell people about it.

Our Successes

• Broad Walk entrance (15 trees) safe for now!
• Terrace Walk (10 trees) safe for now!
• Phased work on Extension Walk and Broad Walk: 52 trees safe for now
• Council panel to review sports provision
• Cabinet member promised cycle parking

Many thanks to the Council for accepting these improvements.

Ongoing Campaigns

• Try to save the 150 trees still under immediate threat by encouraging a long-term conservation plan which respects the Walks unique heritage instead of treating them as Anytown Avenues
• Call for the kiosk to be "secure by design"
• Ask for hard sports facilities to be retained in full, as required by government policies
• Call for sufficient litter control
• Reject barriers around and across Broad Walk and Seven Sisters Walk

Please make the Walks democratically controlled and ask the Council to consult widely on the detailed plans before carrying them out.

The local council are planning £4.38m worth of work on the park, to be funded 86% by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and the rest from borough council tax. The plan published last summer included some astonishing proposals, such as cutting down all of the trees that form the walks, but it has changed a bit now.

A Walks Action Group has formed. The group aims to prevent the wholesale felling of the walks trees, with some members hoping to improve the other aspects of the Walks restoration. It started in September 2004, after the Council misreported the outcome of the July Friends meeting and refused to host any more (asked on 18 August) before it would be too late to help. So far, members have run detailed public consultations, done basic research and put information stands at events. Members have also run some good publicity stunts (including a banner across the Walks and taking Death to a Council meeting) and tried to provide balanced background to reporters after unexpected events (like "Tarzan" and "X marks the chop"). Sadly, we've only had one meeting with executive Councillors so far, but we keep trying to inform Councillors directly too.

We are happy for this to be their site. We'll try to make sure that people in Kings Lynn get what they want and don't get any more nasty surprises.

Disclaimer

We are trying our best to be accurate, but you may only use this site at your own risk. Where possible, we will mention the source material so that you can check for yourself. If you think you have found an error or important omission, please contact us.