Re Northdown Park

After remarking on Thanet Council’s closure of part of Northdown park, as you might imagine(or prefer not to), I made enquiries to TDC press office, who inform me that the reason the walled garden, was closed, was to due safety concerns with a raised paving slab and not as I thought that some council officer just thought “bollix we’ve better things to do, than allow access to public assets by the er public”.

Now I applaud their worries, about safety which are clearly a departure from their concern for Margate Residents, who during the refurbishment of the Old Town pavements and roads, were subject to all manner of potential hazards, work materials just left heaped up, unmarked, unfenced and pavements left with tripping hazards and even supplies of paving slabs cut to a convenient size, for local work shy yobs, to use if the urge had taken them to put through local windows. If you don’t believe me click on this earlier post when I mistakenly blamed KCC Highways when credit should have gone to muppets closer to home.

I’m informed that this will be rectified in the next couple of weeks. Brilliant!

In the meantime maybe TDC could do more to encourage the use of local parks.