Comments on: Sense of Proportion http://www.leverpark.co.uk/2008/11/sense-of-proportion/ Protecting Lever Park and Rivington for the future... Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:42:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hfs http://www.leverpark.co.uk/2008/11/sense-of-proportion/comment-page-1/#comment-119 hfs Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:08:50 +0000 http://www.leverpark.co.uk/?p=277#comment-119 As ever, legislation is open to interpretation.... I thought I would look at the document which people have been quoting... here the same section says that the land may be laid out as a public park, and that buildings 'necessary or convenient' for the use or enjoyment of the park may be erected. What is meant by enjoyment is open to interpretation! " the Corporation shall subject to the provisions of this section permit the owner at his own expense to lay out the said lands (except so much thereof as is situate between the unclimbable fence herein-after referred to and the Lower Rivington Reservoir) as a public park herein-after described as " Lever Park" for the use and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the county borough of Bolton and generally of the public for ever and to pull down any building or buildings now standing on the said lands and to erect any building or buildings thereon necessary or convenient for the use and enjoyment of the park as such and to make any roads or footpaths thereon for affording to the public proper access thereto and generally to form lay out and deal with Lever Park as may appear to him to be desirable in order to secure their free and uninterrupted enjoyment by the public " As ever, legislation is open to interpretation…. I thought I would look at the document which people have been quoting… here the same section says that the land may be laid out as a public park, and that buildings ‘necessary or convenient’ for the use or enjoyment of the park may be erected. What is meant by enjoyment is open to interpretation!

” the Corporation shall subject to the provisions of this section
permit the owner at his own expense to lay out the said lands
(except so much thereof as is situate between the unclimbable fence
herein-after referred to and the Lower Rivington Reservoir) as a
public park herein-after described as ” Lever Park” for the use
and enjoyment of the inhabitants of the county borough of Bolton
and generally of the public for ever and to pull down any building
or buildings now standing on the said lands and to erect any
building or buildings thereon necessary or convenient for the use
and enjoyment of the park as such and to make any roads or
footpaths thereon for affording to the public proper access thereto
and generally to form lay out and deal with Lever Park as may
appear to him to be desirable in order to secure their free and
uninterrupted enjoyment by the public “

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