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Report transcript in: Reporter Mash talks to Duncan and Erin about the park
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Well, hello, Duncan and Erin. Good to meet you today.
Um, yeah. I understand that your regular visitors to Longford Park
really? Right.
Right. That's the main thing.
Right? So very close.
Lovely.
Lovely. And do you come, Erin
as well?
Yeah. What? What do you like best about Longford Park in particular?
No. Do you like just having a having a drink here?
Oh, do you like, Do you enjoy any of the Children's playgrounds or not?
Right. Right. And there's pets corner as well.
Do you ever do you ever go and look at the look at the
look at the animals,
right? Of course. Of course.
Right.
Right.
So you basically enjoy just having walks? Um, every every day, if possible.
All right. Is that on a Saturday?
You just do your
own,
right.
So,
yeah.
Brilliant, right? It's a good space for that, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
And, um, yeah, we have various things happening over the year friends along for do,
I don't know whether you know, the community allotment that I'm involved with,
right?
Right.
Yeah. Yeah. And there's, um
there's also the disc. Golf does a
ever play with the discs with the
right.
Yeah, because there's quite a few people in lockdown that got into it, I think.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
So are there any things about the the part that you think could be improved
at all?
Would you like to see anything different here? Or
the swings
Lemons?
I don't think so. Is that the older Children's playground?
No. They've been taken down, actually.
Yeah,
that's right.
The
Children's playground
on the older Children's
just
Yeah,
she might have a think anyway.
Very good.
Yeah. Anything else about the part that you think could be better?
Probably
in the
middle,
Where the
used to be?
Yes,
yes,
a
kind of,
I
don't know.
I'm not
sure.
Well, I think
there's quite a lot of the of the gardens in
the park that have been neglected to be nice.
And yeah, it's just that bit seems a bit
Yeah, it's It's been neglected, I think, Really.
And, uh, the plantings sort of gone.
We friends of Longford have tried planting occasional things there, but
the problem is, there's not enough of us to keep keep on top of it, you know.
And no longer are any gardeners based here in in the park. So it's It's
It's problematic. Really? Yeah. From that point of view,
yes.
Yeah. Basically enjoy being here. Just, uh yeah, using it as you
got, you know, open space. Really?
Yeah.
Yeah. Well, that's lovely.
That's great.
OK, thanks very much anyway.
Cheers.
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