Fair Play? ~ Environment Agency Broken Promises

Playing Field

They promised to give us a new playground with new equipment but they wont pay for it.
They promised a temporary playing field for the summer holidays. What we eventually got at the end of the holidays was a soggy field with long grass, one goalpost and a bench – and it is locked most of the time because they haven’t paid the rent to the landowner.
They promised to consult with the children and young people. They “talked” to them once.
They said they’d get a play specialist to help the community design a new playground. They didn’t.
They said we’d have our playground back by October. It doesn’t look like we’ll have it until next summer.
They’re now saying that they’re spending £112,000 on the playing field. None of this is for play equipment or to give us anything that we didn’t have before.
- - £30,000 of this money spent on REPLACING the football pitch (which they dug up in the first place).
- - £65,000 on making sure that there are some flat areas on what’s left of the playing field so that play equipment can eventually be installed.
- - And they’ve spent £17,000 of this paying for their staff to attend meetings!!!!

Funding to replace all of the old play equipment with new (chosen by the children & parents, not the Environment Agency)
Compensation for the children of Trefriw who will have had nowhere to play for a year.
Compensation for the community who have lost the only area in the village that could be used for festivals and events.
Compensation for breach of covenant in building the flood defence on land held in Trust.

Trefriw ~ In the beautiful Conwy Valley, North Wales