Pollok Park lies on the south west side of Glasgow and was once the ancestral estate of a long-established Scottish landed family. It was gifted to the people of the City in 1966.

The park covers 361 unspoilt acres and is Glasgow's finest green legacy. It was intended by its former owners to be a place of sanctuary for the free use of everyone and a legal agreement to this effect was drawn up with the National Trust for Scotland which persists to this day.

Glasgow City Council now intends to disregard both the spirit and the letter of this legacy by allowing an exclusive and privately-run high-wire adventure course to be developed in the middle of the park's oldest and most unspoilt area of woodland.

It is a plan which typifies a wider and growing tendency for local governments to encourage corporate interest and private enterprise in the commodification of public space and community resources.

This film attempts to make the case against civic-sponsored profiteering in a park that belongs to all of the people.
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