Oxley Park is proving to be a bit of a misnomer at the moment.
Sure, there’s plenty of green space. We’re fortunate enough to face out on to a small park with ponds, lovely trees and a decent amount of grass to play on (as long as you can avoid the disgusting dog pooh some people think it’s acceptable to leave all around).
But, what we don’t have, yet, is any Oxley Park park.
This is becoming irksome for a number of residents I’m sure, not lease as we have a primary school on our estate, and what appears to be a high concentration of young families and their children in the area.
We’re blessed with a wonderful geographical location for a town/city estate. We have woodland on two sides, and lots of green fields and space in another direction. But we seem to be the only inhabited estate that doesn’t have a children’s playground.
There are some planned, apparently, although we’ve been unable to find the planning details (if anyone can help with that, please do), but wouldn’t it be nice if developers had to put the infrastructure, kids play areas included, in place BEFORE they finished building and selling their properties.
There’s even been a case of one developer trying to change an area they had planned to build play park into further residential development instead! Much to the dismay of the locals, and rightly so.
I doubt there’s anything at all residents can do to hurry along the construction of play parks, but they can’t arrive soon enough for us, and our kids!
