Every Southwark Council tax payers by law have to pay an extra amount to fund the Lee Valley Regional Park. This linear park runs along the Lee River from Ware in Hertfordshire, through Essex getting ever narrower until it reaches East India Dock Basin.

How many people from Southwark use this facility? They tell me one Southwark school visited their petting farm and the Herne Hill Harriers compete there. – unfortunately they don’t seem to know that HHH are not Southwark based but moved to Tooting Bec many years ago.

I don’t understand why council tax payers shouldn’t either pay prorated for the use they make – with Southwark residents paying little or nothing – or that it comes from central taxation or other non Southwark council tax payers pay proportionally for the use they make of Southwark Parks.

What do you think?