Councillor Malcolm Kennedy has written to say..

1. That they don't need an environmental impact assessment for a sale. You need that when planning permission is considered.

2. The money for the sale will be used to make improvements to the park.

My response is...

1. If environmental considerations are not to be taken into account until planning permission is considered, Why are they clearly saying that the plan is to sell the land for housing? You will obviously get a higher price is there is a high probability that planning permission will be given. The people of Liverpool would be excused for thinking that you are planning to sell off important assets without investigating what proper safe guards should be in place. You should either have a full environmental impact assessment before the sale, or remove any mention of selling for housing from the proposal. Ideally of course you should reject the proposal altogether.

2.  It seems from you reply that the plan to sell of these green fields is linked to some other spending plans, indeed this was mentioned in the Echo yesterday. It is very odd that this plan has not been mentioned within the proposal. Please will you publish the plans so that the citizens of Liverpool can evaluate the merits of the case.