Sir,

After reading the article in your paper ‘Residents call for action over holiday park revellers’, I feel the need to reply. I feel very sorry for the residents of Quarry Cottages and Lower Park Road, but I don’t feel two of their suggestions will stop the problems.

Firstly, Mr. Edwards states by blocking off the access along the public footpath in front of Quarry Cottages and making people walk further along Lower Park Road to cross the Green car park and then double back to walk along the road to Salterns car park ‘would cause little inconvenience’.

I can assure you for myself and many other hundreds of people who use that public footpath, and have never displayed any anti-social behaviour, it would be a huge inconvenience. It would be an extra few hundred metres and, if you are carrying shopping back, every step counts. Also, if you have children, especially primary school age and below, you will be trying to cross two car parks safely instead of one. Why should we be punished for other’s behaviour.

Secondly, if the gates are locked, so the people being anti-social have to go to the front entrance, won’t that mean the people living in Lower Park Road will still be affected as well as all the people living along Marsh Road? Surely it is better to try and stop the problem, instead of just making it somebody else’s problem.

Maybe having a light or CCTV camera fitted would help, but surely it would be better to address the root of the problem. That is to say look at the hours the drinking establishments are allowed to stay open and make sure that the drinking establishments who are serving alcohol to people who are obviously already well-lubricated are told not to do so.

Like I said at the start of this letter, I do feel really sorry for the residents who are suffering this problem, but please don’t blame all of us who have a holiday home at the holiday park in question. I have never been drunk in my life, dropped litter or displayed any other anti-social behaviour. We as a family must use that path well over a hundred times a year without causing any problems, in fact have chatted and said hello to many of the residents, both two and four-legged, over the last few years.

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