{"id":19764,"date":"2018-02-27T15:28:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=19764"},"modified":"2018-02-27T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T15:28:18","slug":"parents-say-litter-and-drinking-at-playground-is-a-safety-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/parents-say-litter-and-drinking-at-playground-is-a-safety-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents say litter and drinking at playground is a safety issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There are calls for more to be done to make sure\u00a0a new playground is safe for young children.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Coed-y-Gores playground, which opened on 17 February, has already had people littering and drinking alcohol there after dark.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Liberal Democrat Councillor for Pentwyn and Llanedeyrn Joe Carter has called on Cardiff Council to keep a closer eye on the facility, which was opened with the aim of creating a better environment for local families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been very clear with waste officers that we need to monitor this carefully,&#8221; Cllr Carter said. &#8220;Clearly, we have a problem with people dropping things like bottles and cigarette ends late at night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to go in there on a daily basis to make sure that it is cleansed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa McFadden lives nearby and often takes her\u00a0two young daughters to the playground.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are times where I do feel quite vulnerable walking over there on my own, or with the children. I just assume something bad is going to happen, which is quite sad really.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the park,\u00a0people are just free to do whatever they want, which is\u00a0good, but unless you have got parents around, and I suppose the\u00a0ones who are doing it are a bit old to have parents around.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cardiff Council have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are calls for more to be done to make sure\u00a0a new playground is safe for young children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744,750],"tags":[1489,1487,1488],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19764"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19852,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19764\/revisions\/19852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}