If Leeds City Council does not act quickly to improve the play equipment for our children it runs the risk of helping to produce a generation of clumsy and obese teenagers who will be susceptible to developing Type 2 diabetes in adulthood.
In response to the letter from Coun Terry Grayshon (August 21), I would like to clarify that the dilapidated play park which I visited in the town of Morley was situated across the road from his own home, near to Scatcherd playing fields.
He shoul
d take an evening stroll to this play park, where he would find drunken yobs spitting on the play equipment.
The security fence is broken down and stray dogs regularly enter the park and defecate on the soft protective floor area. This play park is situated near to the police station, yet parents still do not feel safe taking their children to exercise at this facility. The toilets in the park were closed down because of loitering perverts and vandalism.
The Scatcherd play park was built in 1973 and the equipment is dated.
This play area does not provide a facility which allows disabled children to engage with able-bodied children and the current situation is unacceptable.
Small children must develop their own sense of balance and co-ordination before they feel confident to explore further. Modern play equipment is needed in the town of Morley to help produce childhood development. The children of Leeds must be allowed to play in safety and they need distracting away from those horrid hand-held games consoles.
PAUL COCKROFT, Tingley, Morley, Leeds.
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