Old Town Councillors Nadine Watts and Brian Mattock are writing to Taylor Wimpy asking them to provide some land for a temporary play area so that children living in Wichelstowe have somewhere to play over the summer holidays. This comes following Swindon Council saying that they won’t be able to build the planned play park in East Wichel until October this year at the earliest, which will mean another summer for East Wichel residents without a children’s play park. A play park had originally planned to be built by October 2012.
Old Town Councillors Nadine Watts and Brian Mattock are writing to Taylor Wimpy asking them to provide some land for a temporary play area so that children living in Wichelstowe have somewhere to play over the summer holidays. This comes following Swindon Council saying that they won’t be able to build the planned play park in East Wichel until October this year at the earliest, which will mean another summer for East Wichel residents without a children’s play park. A play park had originally planned to be built by October 2012.
Taylor Wimpy and Swindon Borough Council are the lead developers for the East Wichel development.
Old Town and East Wichel Councillor, Nadine Watts, said:
“It is disappointing that East Wichel residents may have to endure another summer without a play park. I know the development is taking longer than expected, but that doesn’t mean we should leave local residents without simple amenities. And with so many children and young people living in Wichelstowe a children’s play park would be an appropriate amenity.
That is why Cllr Mattock and I, as Councillors for East Wichel, will be writing to Taylor Wimpy to see if they can assist us temporarily in providing land for a play park in East Wichel over the summer period. Such a move by Taylor Wimpy I believe would be a gesture of good will by the housing developer to local residents and would be hugely welcomed by local councillors.”