Issue - meetings

Little Dinosaurs Play area

Monica Myers (Muswell Hill and Fortis Green) and Ms Hutchinson visited the Little Dinosaurs play area, which was situated in the old Workshop building within the Park. Ms Myers and Ms Hutchinson reported to the Advisory Committee that the new business seemed to be running well, although they had concerns regarding ruts in the mud caused by heavy vehicles, an additional storage area and large orange containers at the back of the building and a new concrete path, all of which detracted from the views of the Park.

The Park Manager informed the Committee that the orange containers were gas cylinders, which the Park Manager could ask the Tenant to screen.  The ruts in the mud were caused by builders converting the Workshop building and BT engineers who had been attending to the nearby 345 Club.  The Workshop Tenant had agreed to flatten the ruts.  Regarding the concrete path, the Park Manager explained that this was a temporary path installed to prevent Little Dinosaurs staff from slipping when accessing the storage area as the grass had been wet and slippery. The path could be taken up and the grass re-seeded.

The Grove Café

Ms Hutchinson asked if more could be done regarding security and highlighted issues including that the Grove Café had been subject to vandalism and parents using the playground by the boating lake had highlighted that they felt unsafe.

The Park Manager stated that CCTV would be a future consideration and the signs in the playground were being reviewed and would be replaced next year and would include telephone numbers for Park users to call including the Police Safer Neighbourhood Team and perhaps the Police Safer Parks Team.  Members were reminded that the Palace and Park security guards regularly patrolled the Park.  The Park Manager would ask the Palace Security Guards to patrol the  play area more often.

Action: Park Manager