Well done to Pinchbeck Parish Council for taking positive action against anti-social behaviour and full marks to the police for reacting swiftly.
Unlike Holbeach Parish Council who to create anti-social behaviour in the form of their, non planning permission granted, ‘dog barking pen’.
The access gate within the park area is permanently locked and has been ever since the pen opened.
The excuse given is that people could walk through off Park Road to the park itself.
Is this not what a public park is for and does this situation not breach the condition of the trust?
I am quite sure a ‘dog barking pen’ does.
Several hundred pounds were spent on erecting a rear fence with gates, only for the gates to be locked.
This was just a ploy to avoid submitting a change of use application which they suspected would be refused as the pen is not within the park area as the previous one was.
Having an access gate which borders on a very busy road near to the Holbeach Academy and next door to a football club, not to mention alongside the Academy’s sports field is daft as dogs have been known to escape the pen on to Park Road.
Should the Lincolnshire County Council Highways take an interest and should district council not enquire why a planning application was not submitted?
They both could be held responsible if there was to be a traffic accident caused by escaping dogs.
On a dry, warm day it is impossible for some residents of Mondemont Close to sit in their own rear gardens due to dogs barking from dawn until dark.
If this is not anti-social behaviour I don’t know what is.
G Smith
Mondemont Close, Holbeach
