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Play area grows out of control

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Last Sunday (June 2) I told my great-grandsons, aged six and three, to kick their football about on the playing field in what was the Black Paddock, Alvechurch, but they came back saying the grass was knee high and so impossible.

I had a look there today and, indeed, it had clearly not been cut this season.

Now, when St Laurence Church submitted its first application for building five houses, it included the setting aside of a piece of the field dedicated in perpetuity as a children’s playground, no doubt in an effort to make more palatable to the general public the loss of this open land.

In 2004, when the development was completed, the builders, wishing to divest themselves of this responsibility, reached an agreement whereby, for the payment of £15,000, the church undertook the task.

Inspection today shows that it clearly has not been cut this year and that games are impossible.

Is it too much to ask that the field is kept in order for its dedicated purpose?

WE English, Alvechurch