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Manchester park announces major change for visitors starting next month

Cigarettes, cigars and vaping will be 'banned' at Manchester city centre’s newest park, Mayfield, from next month. Bosses have announced the move - on World No Tobacco Day - in a drive to protect residents and visitors from the serious and life-threatening illnesses caused by smoking.

The six-and-a-half acre park, which opened last September, will become the most notable smoke-free space in the city centre to 'ban' lighting up.

The new rules come into effect from June 26, and will also help protect the burgeoning wildlife that have begun to call the area home after it was transformed into a green oasis from former industrial wasteland, sandwiched between Mancunian Way and a railway line.

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Park users who smoke will be asked to extinguish their cigarettes or cigars, and if they refuse to do so, will be asked to leave. However, no fines will be issued for people who don't abide by the new rules, as the change is not a law that can be enforced by public officials.

That's in part down to the fact Mayfield is not a council park, but instead a space the public can use which has been built by joint public-sector and private business partnership. Staff who work on site will have a 'friendly chat' with smokers to ask them to stop, and the Manchester Evening News understands the approach will not be 'heavy handed' or 'in your face'.

The move has been brought in for the benefit of everyone using the park, and to protect the wildlife in the area, according to Laura Percy, Development Director, for LandsecU+I, which is leading the regeneration of Mayfield on behalf of the Mayfield Partnership.

"The park offers a beautiful space in the heart of the city for people

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