Park works

A rare stroll through Long Grove Park this morning, to find a gang of workmen hard at work at something complicated next to the skate board park. Something which involved some expensive looking metalwork. It also involved what appeared to be a substantial new path, not to say road, over the park and through a hole in the fence into the nearly new Southfield Park Primary School.

Maybe all the new classrooms, added after the first building campaign, have eaten up all the playground within the fence, and the school now finds that it needs to colonise a bit of the adjacent park.

PS: before I came across the gang, I had come across a small caravan parked on the unnamed cul-de-sac running down from Chertsey Lane and providing pedestrian access to Christchurch road. A rather squalid looking dwelling which will, no doubt, be chucking its rubbish over the fence into the otherwise green and pleasant bit of field. Gmaps 51.335776, -0.287275. Which left me wondering what redress one would have if such a person decided to park up in our green and pleasant road? Are there by-laws about living in caravans parked on suburban roads, in the way of the by-laws about overnight camping in seaside car parks?  As I recall, the camper van which parked up in Blenheim Road a couple of years ago was there for months. See, for example, references 1 and 2.

Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/collectives.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/a-new-sort-of-rubbish-1.html.