Money has been made available through Sefton Council’s Capital Programme for new play equipment at a site in Southport.



A sum of £30K has been agreed with Cllr Ian Moncur, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, for new playground equipment at Ovington Drive, Kew.

In August, following some safety concerns, Sefton Council reluctantly took the decision to close the facility and decommission the old equipment, which was done with Cabinet Member approval and ward councillors notified.

Money has been made available and designs are being drawn up involving the local community to replace the outdated equipment which had rapidly deteriorated and been removed. Once finalised, it is hoped the new play area will open in spring, 2018.

Cllr Ian Moncur, Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, said:

“Earlier this year we made the difficult decision to decommission the play area on safety grounds.

“As a result of community reaction to the closure and representations made to the Leader of the Council and myself, I rapidly exercised my discretion to identify funding from within the existing parks budget to prevent the closure.

“We are currently working with the local community on designs for the play area, and once complete and agreed, we will start work on the site.

“Discussions are ongoing on a similar scheme relating to Smithy Green in Formby and as soon as we have further details about this, we will highlight them through our many communication channels.”

Given this is an official Sefton Council press release... it seems it's Cllr Dawson who is "bamboozled" not the campaigners as he claimed at the weekend.

They clearly do have the money, as he was clearly told before he put out his propaganda... though he looks more than a little foolish now.

Perhaps instead of spreading misinformation, Councillor Dawson will instead turn his attention to his former Lib-Dem colleagues the Kew Ward Councillors and get them to release a nice big chunk of the £40k in ward's funds they are sitting on. Ask them to finally help the kids of Kew by contributing to the new park equipment... it's been nearly three months the campaigners have been requesting it from you, pull your finger(s) out!

As a Kew resident I am pleased to see that something is likely to happen, even without the help of Fred and his mates. They have no intention of releasing any of the funds they are sitting on. Time for a change? Sadly no, In Kew, like many other parts of Southport, if you pinned an orange rosette on a monkey people would vote for it.

Originally Posted by RAMBONGO

As a Kew resident I am pleased to see that something is likely to happen, even without the help of Fred and his mates. They have no intention of releasing any of the funds they are sitting on. Time for a change? Sadly no, In Kew, like many other parts of Southport, if you pinned an orange rosette on a monkey people would vote for it.

Some could argue that's already happened but if so it's definitely not the three wise monkeys... as this lot certainly do speak evil with all their misinformation; see it when constantly when there's none there re. Sefton and seem to hear it when folks are just asking for help, like the campaigners.

As to the oft-forgot fourth (do no evil)... well, he has been, totally.

Hopefully, folks will start to realise that.