For goodness sake!
The council are doing what they can with what resources they have. Surely it's better to remove unsafe equipment from play areas than to have a child hurt, maybe seriously, by something that should not have been there. It has been said that it's not the play areas that have closed, just that some equipment has been removed. As I've said before on here, what's wrong with playing with a ball, skipping rope, hoola hoops etc in the areas? Give kids a bit of a hand with ideas and don't hand them everything on a plate, that way they learn and grow. Let's see a bit of encouragement here and not constant knocking.
