would you let your kids play here ?
 

what do people think of this then ,just watched this on my local news and couldn't believe my eyes ,some one wants sacking over this £70,000 waste of money

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/7...mbs.6270480.jp



yeah right ,i hope the park has resident paramedics

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1273064275

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One word, "CRACK"

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the other half was wincing just watching the report

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They should have looked at Cambridge, I drove past some awesome looking playparks last month.

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Have to love how the installation of a CCTV camera is supposed to be a redeeming feature.

I remember playing on something like that as a child. It was a building site we'd snuck into.

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funny enough that's exactly what the other half said

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That's not a play area, it's a death-trap! Who's pocketed the other £69,500? It's not even fenced off.

Cowboys.

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These are the ones we have located in my area http://www.timberplay.com/casestudies.asp

The parks are such good fun, the dog gets more walks than ever before :D

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Everyone knows 'play' parks are just for the teenage crowd to hang around participating in underage drinking anyway

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that would explain the concrete then ...something to open the bottles with :erm:

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now they're play parks ,makes want to be 7 again :)

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I understand where you're coming from, but thats not exactly the case near to where I live. They are used by kids and adults alike (during daylight hours) - even families take picnics, although i'm sure they have their fair share of drunken teenagers on Friday nights too :rolleyes:

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I would expect sales of bubble wrap to go up around those parts then...

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/05/175.jpg

might work:)

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Forgot the mouth area ;)

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No win no fee solicitors in that area must be rubbing their hands with glee what a completely ridiculous thing to do and makes me even more mad as last weekend my cousin got married and wasn't allowed by health and safety nazis to have a bouncy castle. What a joke but hey it's ok our council tax pays for it so not like it's real money for the council is it :rolleyes:. Widespread consultation yeah i bet do they have many psychiatric hospitals and schools for the blind there totally stupid but what we have come to expect these days isn't it.

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I wonder if this is really the whole story. So far we have only seen photographs from one angle. I'll bet that there is a proper park behind the photographer, or even a climbing frame of some description.

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no there isn't that's it every thing is concrete blocks

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BBC

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And some councillor's brother-in-law who's copped a nice little earner as a consultant.. That's where the money goes.

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That monstrosity could have been put up by a few parents in a few hours for a hell of a lot less then the council paid for it and having asked a few people that have looked at that photo none of them would allow their kids near the place. To think they removed all the slides and roundabouts in the park over the road that kids used to love because they were not upto so called safety standards and yet that thing can be built. We really are upside down in this country where too often idiots manage to get into positions of power and able to make decisions that should never get made.

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Really?

http://www.anorak.co.uk/247411/media...aedo-park.html

Apart from the rather macabre headstones, there is a perfectly functional climbing frame and sandpit.

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are you drunk?

thats not diamond hall pocket park that is just a random picture of a park

you realy should look at things first ...oh and nice site by the way :rolleyes:

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http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1273164549

this is what the site looked like before the council spent £70,000 on it ...a big improvement?


https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...010/05/167.jpg

there's a better view for you Flyboy

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Well, they were pictures included in an article about Diamond Hall Pocket Park, the title certainly suggests that they are pictures of the park. Never having been to Sunderland, what else was I supposed to deduce.

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if you scroll through the pictures i think it becomes obvious ...with all the headstones and such ;)

i'm still trying to work out what headstones are doing in a park ,maybe sunderland council designed it :D

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I expect the camera's are for getting the ambulances their sooner for the broken shins and skulls.

somebody clearly hates kids.

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I wonder if the council could be put on that list of people that are a danger to children hmm

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The same guidelines that mean my local council has spent a small fortune putting safety mats everywhere a child might fall in the playground? Not that I am complaining about the mats, but placing multiple random concrete blocks in various positions and calling it a feature of a play park hardly matches up with the idea of safety.

After all, how are kids gonna play on them? Climb on them, jump around, leap off. Inevitably, some are going to fall (several feet in some cases) and what are they going to hit? Probably more concrete.

Of course, it could just be that the builder laid the concrete then buggered off before it was finished. You know the sort of thing. "Oh, sorry, the swings are coming from Leytonstone. They'll be in next Tuesday, so I'll come and fit 'em then.", but next Tuesday never arrives.

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And so it begins...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8673916.stm

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It had to happen. and as long as they leave them there, there's going to be a lot more blood spilt.

Pathetic.

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Is it just me or is health and safety in this country a complete joke as i said my cousin wasn't allowed to have a bouncy castle for the kids to play on at his wedding reception but it's perfectly ok to have numerous concrete blocks in a kids playground. Are they for real or do they make these stupid decisions and then go back to the canteen and have a laugh at us all having to abide by their stupid actions.

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If you were to set up an exact replica of what they've done in your back garden it wouldn't pass as safe.

it's as if they're trying to pass it off as 'safe' to save money or not having to have a proper park.

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i drive past it when i go to a mates it just looks like a carpark sank in the mud

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There is no h&s directive banning bouncy castles (as long as theres a big enough space with ample room for the guide ropes to bee fasten securely). most likely the venue simply didn't want a bouncy castle on their property and so (like may do) invoked h&s to close down the argument.

The only reason i could actually think of is the venue's insurance didn't cover a bc. however thats not a big issue as you can buy your own policy for the bc (costs a couple of quidd).

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Nope the pub usually has a bouncy castle in the summer months but this year they have been told by the HSE that they are not allowed the letter was shown to my family specifically to disprove the very thing you have said.

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when I was a kid we used to play on an old derelict industrial site far more dangerous than that. We even climbed trees and fences and only on very rare occasions someone hurt themselves. I do not think there is enough cotton wool to go around to wrap up everyone's kids is there?

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What a complete waste of money, what's wrong with a tradtional park for kids to play in? or am i just too old now :confused:

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Zing i think most of us played in areas when we were young that were a lot more dangerous then this park but the fact is public money was never used on those places and has been on this. Thats what annoys me most about this you could have got a lot more traditional playground stuff for the same amount of money and probably less then wasting it on some artsy rubbish nothing to do with wrapping kids up in cotton wool.

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What is making me laugh, really out loud, is that we constantly hear screams from people, including many on here, about "'elf 'n' saferty, gawn mad," but when a council throws caution to the wind, it's, "won't somebody perlease fink of der chidren."

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Nice to see you read all the posts as usual the main point that has people angry on this is that public money was used to build this monstrosity and supposedly in the name of a kids playground. But then money being thrown about was never a bad thing under labour was it thank god they are now gone and some sanity can start to come back.

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UPDATE

hold on to your hats this will make cry ,

The park is being demolished after safety concerns were highlited ...no surprise there then

now for the good bit ,

the council have had to fence off the park whilst workers dig up the pathways because they are made of ...crushed glass

The best bit is that the pathways were layed AFTER the concrete was removed

link

honestly you couldn't make it up

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I saw this on the one show IIRC today

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So, now the residents are complaining that the site has been fenced off? But they didn't like in the first place. If the reporting of this story is accurate, someone at Sunderland City Council needs to go for "re-training."

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[sigh]
no flyboy the residents are complaining because after the council removed the concrete blocks they so kindly placed in the park (and i use that term very losely)they proceeded to lay new paths made out of crushed glass

you are however right about the sunderland council official needing retraining

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I wonder if it's just the one person making all the decisions that hates kids. or if it's all of them.

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We can only hope that this sort of stupidity is now a thing of the past and that common sense will start to work it's way back into council departments because it went on holiday for a long time. You can go all over the UK and see completely reckless spending by councils who at the same time have been ramping up people's council tax to pay for extravagent useless rubbish like this park.

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indeed, hence the cctv.