would you let your kids play here ?

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.

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

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.

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.

[Acidphire21]

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

[beeman]

Originally Posted by RizzyKing

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.

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).

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.

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?

[cuggle]

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

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.

[Flyboy]

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."

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.

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

But, just as Sunderland City Council began removing concrete plinths as part of a rethink at the site, the glass path was laid.

Parents then contacted the Echo to say they had cut themselves on sharp pieces of the glass, while our reporters collected piles of the jagged material, strewn across the park

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honestly you couldn't make it up

[Hom3r]

I saw this on the one show IIRC today

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by martyh

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

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."

Originally Posted by Flyboy

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."

[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

[Gary L]

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