500 signatures reached
To: Wellingborough Borough Council
Save the Croyland Gardens Sound Cushions
Do not take away the sound cushions in the children's play area in Croyland Gardens
Why is this important?
This petition was sent to Wellingborough Council who are now considering options, however, we wish to keep up the pressure not to make changes to this children's play equipment. Please keep signing.
It is wrong that one person moving into the area almost 5 years after the children's play area was established can remove something that many children enjoy over the summer. The park is adjacent to a busy pathway linking one of the town's main car parks to the town centre and there are a number of lively pubs with live music in the vicinity and a busy main road with heavy traffic. It is unfair to pick on the gentle sounds of the children's toys in a safe walled park garden when so much other noise pollution exist.
Extract from Northamptonshire Telegraph (2/12/2015):
A resident’s noise complaint about play equipment near her home may lead to it being silenced or moved to a completely new location.
Sound cushions have been part of the play area at Croyland Gardens in Wellingborough since it was installed in 2011.
When it was designed, members of the working party wanted the play area to be as interactive as possible so four sound cushions were incorporated in the design.
But after planning permission was granted in 2012 to convert the Avon House building from offices to flats, a noise complaint made by a resident in May this year has prompted Wellingborough Council to investigate.
Environmental protection officers looked into the complaint and were concerned that the noise levels being produced by the stepping stones were ‘loud and very tonal.’
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Councillors will discuss the issue at a meeting starting at 7pm on Monday, December 7, at Swanspool House in Wellingborough.
Full story at: http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/noise-complaint-could-see-play-equipment-at-wellingborough-park-being-silenced-or-re-located-1-7094818
It is wrong that one person moving into the area almost 5 years after the children's play area was established can remove something that many children enjoy over the summer. The park is adjacent to a busy pathway linking one of the town's main car parks to the town centre and there are a number of lively pubs with live music in the vicinity and a busy main road with heavy traffic. It is unfair to pick on the gentle sounds of the children's toys in a safe walled park garden when so much other noise pollution exist.
Extract from Northamptonshire Telegraph (2/12/2015):
A resident’s noise complaint about play equipment near her home may lead to it being silenced or moved to a completely new location.
Sound cushions have been part of the play area at Croyland Gardens in Wellingborough since it was installed in 2011.
When it was designed, members of the working party wanted the play area to be as interactive as possible so four sound cushions were incorporated in the design.
But after planning permission was granted in 2012 to convert the Avon House building from offices to flats, a noise complaint made by a resident in May this year has prompted Wellingborough Council to investigate.
Environmental protection officers looked into the complaint and were concerned that the noise levels being produced by the stepping stones were ‘loud and very tonal.’
...
Councillors will discuss the issue at a meeting starting at 7pm on Monday, December 7, at Swanspool House in Wellingborough.
Full story at: http://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/top-stories/noise-complaint-could-see-play-equipment-at-wellingborough-park-being-silenced-or-re-located-1-7094818
How it will be delivered
The petition was emailed to the elected councillors of Wellingborough Council and the Environmental Protection Team. We will resend it in the new year.
