In our town.....

Hi Willow, I've watched some of these programmes with interest mainly because Kevins good at picking up the conflict between the locals and the architects. Some of those architects seem to come from another planet I have to say. and it seems a shame money was wasted on some of their designs. There does seem to be a big conflict of interst with the council wanting more development against the locals wishes aw well, so its been facinating, except I don't always remember to tune in.

Pity that the play area near you has been vandalised, they were taking different approraches in different parts of the town if I remember correctly. One park was being completly locked up at night a bit like the old Victorian parks used to be, but its not possible to put fences around evrything.

You are not unique in having mindless idiots, in our area we have lots of problems mainly with kids wrecking the playing areas at night. Also I help run the local Scout Group and our Hall is always being targeted, so instead of helping the young kids a few of us spend too much time removing graffitti or repairing damage - its annoying but part of modern life I suppose. There aren't any 'bad' kids around us really and there are loads of clubs and activities for them so they shouldn't really have time on their hands, in fact we have problems getting enough youngsters to join out group because there are so many others (not just scouts/guides) in competition. Its always late at night when it happens, so I have to blame their parents for letting young teenagers do as they please.