Greenery

The area was cut back on the winter maintenance programme and to get access to repair the broken fence. I have been advised that re-planting will take place in the near future. Thank You

We have been told, that the greenery will grow again.Peoples gardens in the meantime will be exposed.fence is still broken.

I visited the mentioned location today and the fencing has been repaired and native trees and shrubs have been re-planted. Thank You

Still looks like a war zone.Even though twigs have been put in the ground.Still open to people being able to climb over fences.People don't feel safe.

The bed has been replanted and it takes time for the shrubs to become established. If people are climbing the fences this should be reported to the police.

If you can call sticking a few twigs in the ground,fixed, then yes it has.But peoples gardens are still very much exposed.The sooner this ballcourt goes the better.It is so very much exposed

In general the community appears to be split as to the future of the court. Previous consultations have shown that many local residents want the court to stay. It does provide a valuable local resource for young people to gather and play games.

We will also shortly carry out another neighbourhood consultation as to the future of the ball court, to ensure we have an up to date local, opinion. In July/August 2006 a consultation exercise was conducted with local people and 395 letters and surveys were delivered to residents/households. 73 responses were received back. Of the main questions two were relevant for this report:

1. We asked ‘ Do you experience any problems with the ball court?’ – Yes 16, No 56, and No reply 1.

2. We asked ‘ Are you in favour of the ball court being relocated and the land there redeveloped with a housing scheme to fund the relocation?’ – Yes 32, No 37 and Don’t know 4.

This confirms that the residents most concern with noise and behaviour lived alongside/bounded the ball court site and that the community generally was split evenly concerning a possible relocation.

We are investigating ways of reducing the nose reduction by looking at the feasibility of installing noise reduction and noise absorbing measures, such as rubber sheeting, insulation washers and sand in-filling in the supports. We will also consider locking the court at night, provided appropriate gates can be fitted. At the moment the court is open.

Street scene and SERCO will carry out screen planting along the boundaries in the form of natural hedging in the autumn to replace the vegetation that was cut down in the early spring.

Peoples gardens still exposed,greenery will take years to grow back.Children climb into residents gardens to retrieve balls or to just look around.