Plans to build car parks on Whitworth Park and Platt Fields Park, both in the Rusholme area of South Manchester have been scrapped after provoking fury among local residents. The plans, which included 416 parking spaces on Platt Fields, 191 on Whitworth Park, 2metre high fencing, CCTV and 6 metre high lighting columns, had been proposed by the NHS. The car parks were to be 'temporary' - for two years - and used for it's staff at the new super-hospital on Oxford Road. Hundreds of local residents quickly became involved in the campaign against the car parks.
As one regular park user said, "I'm very concerned about increases in traffic congestion and air pollution in this area, should the plans go ahead. People round here don't have gardens, and these parks are our only green spaces. We have little enough as it is - we can't let them take more of it for a car park."
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