On Wednesday afternoon I attended a drop-in consultation session at Heaton Park County Primary school on Cuckoo Lane.

There are proposals to create some children’s play areas along the front of the school (on the Cuckoo Lane side) and we wanted to make sure that local residents had the chance to let us know what they thought.

An earlier proposal for a “ball zone” for older children has already been dropped as being too much for the area.

There were a number of very valid concerns raised about the proposals:
- that the facilities would attract unwelcome groups of young people to the area
- concerns about parking and traffic
- concerns that the facilities would make trespassing on the fields behind the school worse not better.

Some people welcomed the plans, particularly as it would be a good facility for the local school (who would have use in the day).

Council Officers are going to analyse the responses and will be getting back to local councillors on the results.