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Residents suggest West centre for skate park project TAKE PART....
Over 50 people in Middleleaze and The Prinnels have now lodged objections to the proposed skate board park • Is your home in need of a
at Salt Way Fields in Middleleaze and say a more central location would be suitable for it. serious spring clean?
The residents are concerned with have been necessary retrospectively for the last two years for the skate park • Do you find house-
site security, disturbance and noise at other skate parks. could be let down. “It is difficult to keeping an overwhelming chore and
avoid it at all costs?
arising from an open-all-hours facility, “It’s regrettable that we had to comprehend the problem when all Perhaps your living room is bursting with
the potential for vandalism, the lack of resort to a Freedom of Information you can hear on the Salt Way site is the junk and clutter you can’t face to part
first aid facilities and difficult access request to discover that there has been drone of traffic on Tewkesbury Way. with.
for emergency vehicles. no formal consideration given to the “Councillors in Shaw are proud • Do you need help in getting your
Linford Madley, of The Prinnels, best site to locate a skate park in West that Salt Way school field was saved home back in order?
said residents are not against the idea Swindon. It is surprising that an im- as open space for all kinds of users; we • OR are you a cleaner?
of a skate board park but want it to portant decision to spend £60,000 at represent all the residents of the ward. betty is making a second series of
see it built in the right place. “We’re Salt Way Fields did not involve a more The multi-use games area built there the hit show Obsessive Compulsive
keen that £60,000 of our money formal consultation process and was two years ago has not been a problem.” Cleaners. To find out more, mail:

[email protected]
isn’t wasted by the council building a based purely on informal discussions The project is likely to be debated OR call 0207 9070892
facility that is in the wrong location. between a councillor and officers.” by the planning committee in August.
Once built it cannot be moved and However skateboard park sponsor

there are unlikely to be funds avail- Cllr Nick Martin said he is disap- “I’m in PAIN”
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Skate park objectors next to the existing Salt Way Fields multi-use games area

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