Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Director for Place Management.

The report details the request from the Marple Area Poppy Appeal to finish the Ride of Remembrance within Marple Memorial Park. The event will take place on Sunday 23 October 2022, permission has been requested to use the park from 1.00pm until 4.30pm to enable event set up and close down of the event. The Ride of Remembrance involves 100 motorbikes riding through the town. Each rider will carry one of the large street poppies with the name of one of the fallen men from the Marple area. Once in the park the poppies carried by the riders will be transferred onto the Wall of Remembrance. Money raised from the event will go to the Royal British Legion.

The Area Committee is asked to approve the request, subject to all appropriate paperwork, licences and fees being submitted to the Council.

Officer contact: Jonathan Headlam, 0161 474 3142, Jonathan.headlam@stockport.gov.uk