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  I'm looking forward to the new play area in Pencester and think that once the apparatus is in place some of the problems described here will be eradicated. Admittedly as a park Pencester has numerous failings to do with connections and location, however it is there and this will not change. I quite often pop into the current dilapidated play area with Master T'. The skate park is a huge success and its position is key to this. The openness not only creates the perfect space to show off to passersby as well as girl and boy-friends (which after all is a prerogative of any teenager) but it is not intimidating. I often see parents standing by watching young children going up and down the ramps and there is always a good mix of ages. Yes there is some bad language but I'm not sure you have to go as far as Pencester to find this. As for people drinking we have to be realistic, it is a park and if I liked drinking super strength lager at 10am, I too would choose a spot to watch the world go by. This is a job for the local police and I have recently witnessed a number of individuals being moved on by police officers.
  
  As soon as the new play area is up and running, hopefully parents of younger children will occupy the new play area and this in turn will place some kind of ownership on the space. Thanks to its central position this can happen. I'm not quite sure why we feel the need to compartment and separate all the users of these types of space.

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