Council feels residents' wrath after removing trampoline
25/08/2009 A communal trampoline which was left to a community by a former resident has been removed by Portsmouth City Council.
Local residents are furious at the council, which removed the trampoline citing health and safety reasons, reported the Portsmouth News.
Children have playing on the equipment outside Parkfield House, Almonds-bury Road, Paulsgrove for about a year.
But now the council has branded the trampoline a "serious health and safety issue" and a breach of tenancy agreements which state nothing should be stored in communal areas.
A row has erupted as local residents are adamant it was left by a former neighbour and are refusing to hand it over to the council which says it will destroy it.
Local Dad Arron Briggs, 30, said his three-year-old daughter Ruby-May was one of a number of youngsters who spent hours playing on the trampoline on the communal garden.
He told the news provider: "If they play on the trampoline in the garden where we can keep an eye on them we know they're safe."
The news comes a week after a family in Doncaster escaped from their burning home after their neighbours put a trampoline under their window.
Local residents are furious at the council, which removed the trampoline citing health and safety reasons, reported the Portsmouth News.
Children have playing on the equipment outside Parkfield House, Almonds-bury Road, Paulsgrove for about a year.
But now the council has branded the trampoline a "serious health and safety issue" and a breach of tenancy agreements which state nothing should be stored in communal areas.
A row has erupted as local residents are adamant it was left by a former neighbour and are refusing to hand it over to the council which says it will destroy it.
Local Dad Arron Briggs, 30, said his three-year-old daughter Ruby-May was one of a number of youngsters who spent hours playing on the trampoline on the communal garden.
He told the news provider: "If they play on the trampoline in the garden where we can keep an eye on them we know they're safe."
The news comes a week after a family in Doncaster escaped from their burning home after their neighbours put a trampoline under their window.
