The Lib Dem Focus Team descended on the area around Longbarn Recreation Ground on Saturday and saw first hand what the locals have to put up with... and also discovered first hand the service they get when they do report things.
Mini-motos and motorbikes regularly plague the Rec and residents are quite fed up with it. On Saturday we discovered two adults and a child tearing around the place, racing through alleyways with no helmets. Now the police were very nice when we reported the incident in progress, but you just got the idea that someone would not be turning up to catch them red handed. And so it proved to be the case 20 minutes later when the bikers finally got bored and left.
The Rec is a much need piece of parkland for the locals, but it is not designed for scrambling. We'll be calling for proper gating to keep the bikes out and trying to find out why there is so little action to stop them.
