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From: To: ning Cc: Subject: Fao PA No 23/00010/B Creation of a new play area at Victoria Road School, Castletown Date: 03 February 2023 00:17:39 Caution: This email is from an external sender. Please take care before opening any attachments or following any links. Fao Ms Jennifer Chance & Mr Paul Thornley Your Reference 23/00010/B Dear Ms Chance & Mr Thornley, We thank you for your letter dated 16th January 2023, regarding the proposed new play area in the school field. We have been aware of construction of the proposed play area over the Christmas break onwards, so it looks like a forgone conclusion that it’s going ahead! After the horrid time we had a few years back with yourselves & Auldyn construction both before & during the building of New school hall & additional classrooms, which have completely blocked our property in, we have settled in and got on with no outlook from the rear of our home. We have had to report damage to the school & police with young people ‘hanging around’ the back lane climbing on our wall and smashing our solar panels on our side of the fence. Pls don’t make this lane any more accessible to the field, it just encourages groups of youths to wing things around and chuck empty bottles up onto the classroom roofs, as you can see in the guttering. At present the field has a pile of wooden pallets in the far corner, the community think it’s a real eyesore.  Why couldn’t you have thought about replacing that with some nice landscaping for the children & community to enjoy? The properties at the bottom of the school field will be landscaped, meanwhile up are end there is a proposed pile of scrap tyres & a climbing wall right next to No 6’s kitchen and diner.  Pls consider the extra noise that we bring with it.  It should be moved to somewhere more suitable. Whoever thinks scrap tyres, scrap wooden pallets and tables made of cable reels are the way forward for promoting Children’s play needs to have a pile of them put outside their own property.  Surely these aren’t environmentally friendly and are another eyesore and things to wing around.  Pls take them over the otherside of the field for the rest of the community to put up with.  Surely children should be taught to be responsible for taking equipment out onto the field and tidying it away after use not taught to ‘fly tip’ rubber tyres etc. The weather plays a big part of the pupils using the field i really hope that this project is successful, kept and not just a five minute wonder. We can’t understand why the money isn’t being spent on Pulsom Park or the Tennis Court play areas of Castletown which are much needed for the whole town.  Such a shame. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to voice our views. Yours sincerely 5 Pickard Close Castletown IM91BB Mobile Redacted