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"Kids fight to keep grass amid care home plan"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Play experts today backed the children’s campaign to retain the disputed grounds and said the needs of youngsters were often overlooked as adults cash in on money-spinning developments.
My goodness but that is true.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Adjacent to the balgreen - Costorphine Cycle track discussed in other threads.
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Thinking about this - pretty much all the semi-wild places I used to play as a kid have been developed for housing or supermarkets.
It the loss of these informal spaces, potentially free of those annoying adults, that really impacts on kids and their ability to run a bit wild. Easy for developers to say they aren't well used - most of them seem quiet most of the time (kids at school). It is a difficult balancing act, the population is increasing and people have to go somewhere, but commercial development seems to have had the upper hand for so long now that slow loss of open space now seems to be taken as a given.
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The street where I grew up has a narrow strip of waste ground with trees and bushes against the walls to the builders yards and grass running the length of the street. When I were a lad all the trees were a bit ratty and the grass had big bald patches, the trees from kids climbing and the bald patches from where the goal went.
Now the place looks almost civilised, there are virtually no kids in the street any more. From the price of my mums house I doubt youngish families can afford to live there.
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This area was one of those that I played on when I was a kid, along with the area on the other side of the road. I thought that the Brookside style housing had been built on all of it other than the offices at Pinkhill. Between the railway, Pinkhill, Aviation House and the two big fields we had loads of places to play (not necessarily safe) Do we need to start population control before we lose all of our green spaces?
Posted 12 years ago # -
Do we need to start population control before we lose all of our green spaces?
Nah the tabloids have got parents so scared to let their kids out these green spaces might as well be housing estates the kids only ever see them through a car window.
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speaking of 'playing out' -- on sunday when we were coming back from the innertube thing, we passed two girls out on their bikes, on their own, hanging out. could not think when the last time I'd seen that was.
Posted 12 years ago # -
....on their own, hanging out. could not think when the last time I'd seen that was
Kids out playing/hanging on their own is pretty much an everyday occurrence on practically every street which is not in a city.
Posted 12 years ago # -
girls? on their bikes? yahoo!
(parents I know don't even let their kids go up or down tenement staircases on their own. needless to say, I am considered crazy).
Posted 12 years ago # -
girls? on their bikes? yahoo!
Mind you, somehow I was assuming girls under 10 with pink ribbons coming out of the handlebars. Those girls are out in force in pretty much every suburb in the country.
Teenage girls on bikes I agree are much less a common sight.
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I know that bit of land as I was out walking there with a ex teacher and friend of mine. I asked the workers what the road workings were for and he explained it was entrance road for an old folks home and that it was 100% pure menta given the angle the road hits the main road next to a bridge under a blind corner...
Accident. Waiting. To. Happen.
Yet more of the green space lost to buildings, but by bit they'll chip away until there is enough space for one kid to play keepy-uppy (which won't be hard as they will be walled in on all 4 sides and the ball win't fit past their head)Posted 12 years ago #
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