ILMINSTER NEWS: Vandals strike at children’s play area

NO sooner had a children’s play area in Ilminster been revamped – the vandals had to strike and spoil it for everyone.

It was earlier this year when it was announced that the long-awaited improvements to the play area at Winterhay Lane were well underway with old equipment being removed and new facilities being installed.

But members of Ilminster Town Council’s open spaces committee will hear next week that damage has been caused at the play area and safety matting has been stolen.

“Vandalism has happened to the new set of swings at Winterhay park and a number of the safety matting surfaces have been pulled up and gone missing,” said senior open spaces warden Ryan Gold in a report which will go before the council’s open spaces committee on Tuesday (June 28, 2016).

Councillors will be extremely disappointed at the news – as will the people, especially the children, who actually use the play area.

Anyone with information about the vandalism and theft of the safety matting – please call Ilminster Town Council on 01460-52149 or police on 101.

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