An agreement has been reached with the three original developers of Harrowgate Farm to provide a financial contribution towards new play equipment on Harrowgate Farm.
This contribution is likely to be in the region of ?45,000 and could be used to re-provide play provision within the vicinity of the existing site.
Obviously we cautiously welcome the news that at last progress is being made regarding the play equipment. After receiving conflicting reports from various sources, I?m sure residents in the area will finally welcome more accurate information.
However, we are still somewhat concerned that to date we have not had sight of any information giving a firm reason as to why the play equipment needs to be removed/relocated in the first place. So far vague suggestions have been made concerning the state of the ground beneath the equipment, but as yet no evidence has been provided, despite this being requested several times.
We shall once again be contacting Council officers in order to obtain a copy of the information used by officers to determine that the play equipment actually needs to be removed. We would assume that an engineers reports or such like would have been commissioned and will presumably be used by officers as evidence to support the case for removing the equipment. We would also expect that this report was in existence prior to the decision being taken to remove the equipment and not generated afterwards as an after thought to support a bad decision.
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