If you have strong views on what activities and groups of users need to be consulted about the future of the park, then please contact: ken.burlton@btinternet.com (Clissold Users' Group newsletter)

He was director in charge of Hackney's parks in the days when most people agree some of the errh 'least' was done to them and if we got the story right he was also the director who had reported to him the fact that individuals were not 'serving local people' but were in fact loading monuments into white vans (from Kent) in Abney Park. This was the 1990s and they were turning up in auction rooms nearby and he was told how to do something about stopping it. Ever been in the Dolphin on Mare Street?

He often seems to be open-space consultant of choice for Hackney but the reports do seem to be a while coming - we never did hang around long enough to get the one on the marshes on the bedside table. We wonder if anyone who worked for him is still at Maurice Bishop and still involved with open-space.

Hey do you remember when George and 'Tiger' put 75-tons of goose-shit out of the oxbow on the roots of the horse chestnuts in the deer enclosure - they died, we laughed (as he poured us another one)!

not all bad news though: A sports brief has been agreed including a new sports hall and improved swimming pools following advice from consultant Ken Burlton.