I learnt today that the wildflower meadow has been given a reprieve. It will not be planted with whips. According to Parks and Countryside, it carried out a consultation during Summer 2024, and more people said then that they wanted whips, than had said that they didn’t want whips in October 2020. But why didn’t Parks and Countryside consult the same community groups that it consulted in October 2020? It’s fine to ask complete strangers – cold – if they want whips on Woodhouse Moor. Of course, they’ll say that they would. But did Parks and Countryside tell these people that the whips would be planted on an existing, flourishing wildflower meadow? Did these people have a debate, the way that local community groups had a debate in October 2020, a debate in which all the drawbacks with planting whips on the main Moor could be discussed?