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Labour Government
money means skate park is being built at long last
Midsomer Norton and
Radstock's young people have been asking for a new skateboard park for
many years - since long before I became a MP, in fact. I sometimes meet
constituents who, as local teenagers, were pressing for it way back then.
Many of them now have children of their own.
So having successfully lobbied hard for a special £2.5 million Government
grant for new North East Somerset play facilities I'm delighted that at
long last work is beginning on Midsomer Norton's £800,000 skate
park, made possible by this Government money.
I pushed our area's special case to get this grant. It was important to
do so. Guardian readers know how B&NES Council has repeatedly cut
youth service budgets. People are baffled why they keep putting young
people way down their priority list, even refusing Government money to
make it free for all local under-16s to swim.
No doubt B&NES representatives will pose for the cameras when building
work starts. But we all know if the construction of a skate park for Norton
Radstock had been left to B&NES, we'd still be waiting … and
waiting … for years to come. Thankfully this Government funding means
it's now becoming a reality.
Written for the
Somerset Guardian
December 2009
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