Conservative Council Group
Press Release
Council skating on thin ice over skate park.
Conservative Councillor Lee Dangerfield is again raising the issue of the safety of Harlow’s temporary Skateboard Park at Spurriers in the Town Park.
In summer 2007 Councillor Dangerfield prompted the sudden closure of the facility after he visited and found glaring safety hazards. After remedial work, the site was re-opened and he was given assurances that the site would receive regular inspection to ensure the safety of skateboarders, some of whom are as young as 10 years old.
However, records reveal that not one inspection has been carried out in the last 6 months.
He said, “After everything that’s gone on over the last few months, with the swimming pool the Playhouse and the crematorium, it seems our Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition has learnt nothing. Are we again putting Harlow’s children at risk?”
Why we are not doing these checks? It is sad that this, like the pool, the Playhouse and the Crematorium, falls under the jurisdiction of the Chairman of the Environment & Community Committee. All at a time when the Revenue Budget is suddenly found to be £1.8 million overspent, and now the Non-Housing Capital Budget, for maintenance and repairs, is £2.8 million overspent, so there is little or no prospect of any money appearing to put these facilities in order. So why has the Chairman not done the honourable thing and resigned?
It may be that fate is conspiring against this beleaguered Chairman, but that’s what you are up against when you take on the job and residents have a right to expect a higher standard of governance than we have been getting. Sorry, but she should go.
Contact:
Tony Hall
Tel : 01279 445897
e-mail : anthony.l.hall@tesco.net
Andrew Johnson
Tel : 07976 720469
e-mail : andrew_johnson@aol.com
Lee Dangerfield
Tel : 07846 784078
e-mail : leedangerfield@ntlworld.com
Press Release
Council skating on thin ice over skate park.
Conservative Councillor Lee Dangerfield is again raising the issue of the safety of Harlow’s temporary Skateboard Park at Spurriers in the Town Park.
In summer 2007 Councillor Dangerfield prompted the sudden closure of the facility after he visited and found glaring safety hazards. After remedial work, the site was re-opened and he was given assurances that the site would receive regular inspection to ensure the safety of skateboarders, some of whom are as young as 10 years old.
However, records reveal that not one inspection has been carried out in the last 6 months.
He said, “After everything that’s gone on over the last few months, with the swimming pool the Playhouse and the crematorium, it seems our Labour/Liberal Democrat coalition has learnt nothing. Are we again putting Harlow’s children at risk?”
Why we are not doing these checks? It is sad that this, like the pool, the Playhouse and the Crematorium, falls under the jurisdiction of the Chairman of the Environment & Community Committee. All at a time when the Revenue Budget is suddenly found to be £1.8 million overspent, and now the Non-Housing Capital Budget, for maintenance and repairs, is £2.8 million overspent, so there is little or no prospect of any money appearing to put these facilities in order. So why has the Chairman not done the honourable thing and resigned?
It may be that fate is conspiring against this beleaguered Chairman, but that’s what you are up against when you take on the job and residents have a right to expect a higher standard of governance than we have been getting. Sorry, but she should go.
Contact:
Tony Hall
Tel : 01279 445897
e-mail : anthony.l.hall@tesco.net
Andrew Johnson
Tel : 07976 720469
e-mail : andrew_johnson@aol.com
Lee Dangerfield
Tel : 07846 784078
e-mail : leedangerfield@ntlworld.com
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