Covid memorial is a good idea

AMONG the suggestions for replacing the elderly person’s rest room that I saw online were a few suggesting it is replaced with some other type of shelter, possibly made of glass.

I’m sorry, but this would just be silly.

Anyone who has been unfortunate enough to witness the sort of behaviour that often takes place beneath the glass bus shelter on Shaw Croft will know why.

In fairness, you don’t even need to see the overnight behaviour of the youths that have adopted it as their home, you just need to see the litter they leave for someone to sort out the next day to see how big a problem it is.

The thought of moving (or replicating) this issue to another part of the town, this time more prominent and close to independent shops, needs snuffing out straight away.

It wasn’t that long ago that the wooden elderly person’s rest room was open during the day and it too became a magnet for anti-social behaviour. I’ve even watched kids riding BMX bikes in there.

If the town council doesn’t want a second headache on their hands, they need to drop any ideas of building a shelter and just stick to a seating area. A Covid memorial on the site is a nice idea.

Alternatively, can I recommend, that if a glass shelter is constructed, then a sprinkler system can be fitted - with a remote control installed at the town hall.

Then, if any anti-social behaviour does begin, the occupants can be sharply and swiftly reminded of how unwelcome they are. And their cigarettes (or worse) might also be extinguished in the process.

What a shame we can’t retrospectively install one in the Shaw Croft bus shelter. That would soon eradicate the problems we have there.

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