Re: Milnshaw Park
 

Oh we're not short of a bit of squeaking but I think HBC just turns a deaf ear.

However, that wasn't what was meant.


You can spend a whole week with volunteers cleaning up the parks and getting rid of the druggies' needles, painting over the graffiti, mending broken fences etc but turn your back on it for a couple of days and the vandals are round there again wrecking the place. We need people employed on a regular basis to look after the parks like we had 'in the olden days'.

Re: Milnshaw Park
 

Employing a full time parky is a good idea in theory but unless he has the backing required to stop these idiots then they will still carry on as normal. I rember Gatty Park having its own parky and being chased out several times (not for anything bad mind) and we had no problem escaping and then going back. These idiots will allways win as there is no real legal backup for the parky and ifd it does come it will be guarenteed to be late and inaffective.

Re: Milnshaw Park
 

Re: Milnshaw Park
 

Obviously a quality of life issue. What's needed here are regular police patrols. As taxpayers you have a right to enjoy the park. Don't suppose there's much chance of you getting the coppers to flush out the dregs of society on a regular basis, is there?

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:rofl38: regular police patrols pmsl,bullseye we dont even get them around the residential areas,never mind the parks. would agree its a quality of life issue,but we dont get one.;)

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Oh the blissful ignorance of dwelling elsewhere eh Cashman? ;)

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When I was at Uni I had a summer job as 'Park Patrol' in Milnshaw. (This was ~87). At that time there were 2 groundsmen employed to look after that one park (Although they did grow plants in teh greenhouses for Gatty as well.) My job was to stop kids wrecking the joint. I used to organise games of footy, sort out the tennis nets and other jobs. The old dears looked aftyer teh bowling green although we used to have a good few kids who would often have a game with the owd codgers.

Sadly cost cutting meant that teh gardeners wre asked to take on more parks and eventually they couldn't keep up.

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Sadly cost cutting meant that teh gardeners wre asked to take on more parks and eventually they couldn't keep up.-------------------------------------- and thats the truth entwi! but the way things are now i doubt wether the return of wardens would halt the oiks. the gardeners would certainly improve the view.

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yeh but he means well willow.:)

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I'll own to blissful. However, even though I left the borough long ago, I still consider myself to be a local lass. Have many relatives in the area and visit periodically. I am aware of the problems....and even more up to speed since joining AccyWeb.

It's been a long time since I walked through Milnshaw Park and I am sorry to hear that it is in such bad condition now. Nothing beats a policeman patrolling on foot. The priorities are all wrong these days.

How's about some publicity to draw attention to the situation? Local paper/radio?

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Why cant offenders given "community service" be directed to cleaning up the streets and parks, also able bodied unemployed could be doing this for their dole money.

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thats quite a good point i think grego.

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Re: Milnshaw Park
 

you may find this hard to believe,but i would infringe their human rights,starting with turd patrol in milnshaw.:D