Thame Culture, Leisure & Recreation ‘snippets ‘
AS part of its ‘Risk Assessment and Implementation Plan,’ Thame Town Council is to include “things that might fall off the town hall”, including bits of masonary (which has happened recently), banners and hanging baskets.
The newly refurbished Southern Road Recreation area is expected to be completed by the end of October, when there will be an official opening. Thame is to be “a model for other councils” apparently, in the way it planned and implemented the scheme.
The town council wants it to be known that the Pickenfield play area is for anyone to use, not just the residents of Pickenfield. It is to look into the provision of equipment for older children there.
Some special paint has been acquired by the Town Council, after the contractor who built the skate park, seems to have reneged on a maintenance agreement. The skate park will now be re-painted twice a year by the town council.
The Youth Issues Working Group reported that it had met young people from the Thame Youth Theatre and the Red Kite Explorer Guides, as part of it commitment to talk to all the youth groups in the town, and had discussed such things as whether they felt safe in the town (mostly they did) and what were their likes and dislikes. Apparently the group learned that many young people will not use Elms Park because of so-called ‘Chavs’ which, said the group, had implications for whether the council should “chuck money” at Elms Park, to improve it, before making sure that young people will use the park.
The council is to consider putting a blog page on the council’s website where young people can put their comments.
The group also heard that young people want to be involved in the Christmas event.
The council is to consult with young people about what they would like to see in the triangular area next to the Memorial gardens, to transform it into a special area of reflection for people to think about their young friends who have died.
A questionaire is to be sent out to youth groups and the schools.
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