message on social media<\/a> from the team at Kings Park says they have made the difficult decision with a heavy heart, and thank all of their loyal customers for their support through the years.<\/p>\nCllr Millie Earl, Deputy Leader and Portfolio Holder for Connected Communities says: \u201cCouncils across the country are facing an unprecedented challenge. Soaring inflation has driven up costs and many councils are facing an increase in demand for core services, such as social care, education and highways.<\/p>\n
\u201cBCP Council share these challenges as it works to close a \u00a350 million funding gap. We have been clear that difficult decisions will need to be made and we are taking a responsible approach rather than deferring tough choices to future years.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of these difficult decisions is to close Kings Park Plant Nursery, it will not reopen in Spring 2024. This will save \u00a385,000 in the 2024\/25 financial year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are aware that it will impact our dedicated staff and volunteers, and we will be supporting them throughout this process. Our aim now is to look at how we can best use this space to benefit the community going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI realise this will also come as a disappointment to loyal customers and I want to thank anyone who has ever visited and purchased items from Kings Park Plant Nursery.<\/p>\n
\u201cKings Park Plant Nursery will open for a short period of time in the coming months,\u202fand we hope customers will come and purchase the remaining stock\u202ffrom the plant nursery. This will also enable any customers with gift vouchers to spend them during this time.\u202fWe will make everyone aware of these\u202fdates once they have been decided.\u202f<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have always said we would be open and transparent and the decision to close Kings Park Plant Nursery has been a difficult one and one that hasn\u2019t been made lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The short 4-day sale will take place from Wednesday 14 – Saturday 17 February 2024, 10am-4pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Kings Park Plant Nursery in Bournemouth is to close permanently, BCP Council has announced.<\/p>\n
There’ll be a short four day sale in the coming months but the nursery will not reopen in the Spring as previously planned.<\/p>\n
A message on social media from the team at Kings Park says they have made the difficult decision with a heavy heart, and thank all of their loyal customers for their support through the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":71735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,2,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-06h","category-bournemouth","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71738,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71734\/revisions\/71738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.bournemouthone.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}