{"id":11180,"date":"2012-10-14T10:50:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T10:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/?p=11180"},"modified":"2012-10-14T10:51:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T10:51:37","slug":"good-news-and-bad-news-on-open-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/good-news-and-bad-news-on-open-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News And Bad News On Open Spaces&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sweyne-Park-Grass-1-crop.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sweyne-Park-Grass-1-crop-240x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sweyne Park Grass 1 crop\" width=\"240\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sweyne-Park-Grass-1-crop-240x400.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.onlinefocus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Sweyne-Park-Grass-1-crop.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>First of all, we know that quite a few people are unhappy at the state of Sweyne Park recently. We&#8217;ve been told that there have been some cases of dogs being taken to their vet with rashes on their legs because of the long vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a difficult year for the District Council, with their contractor going bankrupt and the extremely wet early summer. But even so we are very unhappy ourselves that Sweyne Park hasn&#8217;t been maintained better. The latest response from the council is that if the weather shows no signs of improving the grass \/ vegetation will be flailed rather than cut for hay. <\/p>\n<p>On a more positive note, the council is trying to sort out a new contact for ground maintenance next year, and Chris Black is one of the small team of councillors looking at this. One of the things he has been keen to see is to have a few more people employed directly by the council rather than by contractors. This would help the council retain some grassroots knowledge of each area, and also provide a bit of flexibility. As a separate point, bringing back some old-fashioned park wardens would be useful. It&#8217;s difficult to blog about this when  meetings are still taking place but we can at least quote from the council document on bye-laws that we mentioned in our previous article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These byelaws will be enforced by park wardens who are to be added to the establishment as part of the new grounds maintenance arrangements which should be in place from April next year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, we know that quite a few people are unhappy at the state of Sweyne Park recently. We&#8217;ve been told that there have been some cases of dogs being taken to their vet with rashes on their legs because of the long vegetation. 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