Bertie Park Recreation ground has a play area with 14 items of equipment. So, when the council’s first drawings showed only 4, we complained. They reassured us that there could be “as many as 9 items of equipment” in their new play area. We wondered how. Now we know!
The new plans show a toddler trail with 5 items of equipment, including 2 ‘boulders’ i.e. rocks. The toddler trail is hard up against the apartment block, and runs between some shrubs. But the police have pointed out that there should be a proper boundary between the play area and the apartment block garden. Instead of ornamental shrubs, they have suggested a thorny species instead. This could leave our young toddlers between a rock and a thorny place!
We will be talking to council again on 26 January. Watch this space!
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