Cropton Park sports and recreation

John Fareham and John Abbott are working to ensure that a programme of activities for young people can be arranged on Cropton Park.

Meetings have been held with a local community sports provider who is applying for external funding to ensure that a programme of activities can be held in Cropton Park for local youths as well as others in the area. If funding is made available it is proposed to start these activities sometime in the Spring of this year. We very much hope this can be progressed as, with the discovery of asbestos in the old café/parks building, that building will have to be demolished and the space it occupies will be grassed over. That in turn means that any plans to deter vandalism and anti-social behaviour by having the café regularly staffed will go by the board, but we hope that providing young people with activities to take up and enjoy, we will deter them from indulging in anti-social behaviour by offering them something we hope they will prefer.