Councils should have a statutory duty to provide parks | Letters

Kate Ashbrook says hard-pressed local authorities are having to exploit parks as venues for damaging commercial events; Hal Moggridge writes that urban pollution makes parks, with their purer air quality, more vital than ever; David Jolley says parks must be a statutory responsibility of local authoritiesYour correspondents set out the bleak prospects for public parks (Letters, 26 December). To combat austerity, local authorities are increasingly exploiting parks as venues for exclusive, damagin