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Originally Posted by Neil

Another problem is that the vandalism is not being repaired. The Council have to work with the Police to sort out many of the issues we have in the parks.

What of the CCTV adjacent to the play area, and the Ryhddings Park N.W. and their cameras, are none of them working?

Local residents don't help either. I am expecting a lot of resistance ( we have had some already ) about our plans to puts things into Rhyddings park for the secondary school sort of age group. They have nothing to do and no where to go in the park. They end up hanging around in the kiddies play area - many of them started playing in there when it was new and they were in primary school. There is nothing for them to move on to so they stay. They also hang around on the benches around the bowling green which causes problems as well.

By local residents, do you mean the ones living on Park Lane?
I have seen the teenagers (secondary school age group) cause problems for many years, they have no respect for other peoples property. What are the police and LCC doing, has the youth club on Harvey street been closed.

In my opinion Hyndburn has too many green spaces to look after with the current size of its parks department. I was very disapointed when they created the new one off Henry Street in Church. Why create a new one when they can't afford to look after what they have? I am sure it was funded from some grant or another but when that ends HBC will have to pay to maintain it.

Was the Henry street one not a "Remade" project with external funding, I have never seen the gates fronting Henry street unlocked yet, may be the area is only for show and not for playing on

Maybe Accrington should loose one of its parks, it has several while Oswaldtwistle only has one park yet has half the population of Accrington. The park is also close to the towns border with Spring Hill so attracts a lot of visitors from that area of Accrington as well.

What about all the green space fronting Blackburn road, what are HBC doing to clean that up. On the subject of Accrington loosing one of its parks, what would you like to see in its place, blocks of flats.
No I think HBC should get its act together and stop spending silly money on hiring high flying consultants to carry out all these pointless surveys, money that could and should have been spent on park maintenance. Has there not already one been carried out on the number of parks/green spaces in Hyndburn, have the results from that survey been published yet?