GLASGOW City Council has provided an update on work to upgrade a play area in a Southside park, after a local gran slammed the "diabolical" condition of the equipment.
Pollokshaws resident Lynn McCord had taken her three granddaughters, aged nine, eight and six, to her local playpark in Ashtree Park over a month ago, when she realised most of the equipment was unusable, broken and dirty.
A spring rocker had missing seats, swings were reduced to a thin strip of rubber and a swing-like apparatus was missing parts, while leaves and weeds covered the soft floor and the grass was overgrown.
Some of the equipment has now been fenced off, while other elements have been removed.
Since the Glasgow Times got involved, the council has now started the process of upgrading the playpark.
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While there is still no timeline for when improvements will be completed, Glasgow City Council confirmed the play area has been inspected and funding is available to renovate it.
A spokesperson for the council said: “We have funding available to carry out improvements and repairs at Ashtree Park.
"The site has been surveyed and we are currently working to get a contractor in place as soon as possible.”
The 57-year-old grandmother, who lives opposite Ashtree Park, said at the time: “That park is just diabolical as far as I’m concerned.
“It’s overgrown, the soft floor is all eroded and dirty, when it rains it’s just mud, another apparatus has got nothing on it, it’s just a frame.
“The swings, I don’t know if the rubber has eroded but it almost looks like bite marks.
“Another piece of equipment was supposed to have pieces hanging down for kids to sit and swing across. Since they came off about five years ago, they never put them back, it’s just a bare frame.
“I was in there yesterday for about ten minutes and then I said to my granddaughters, ‘let’s just leave, I don’t want you to play in here it’s too dirty’.
“If that was a workplace, it would be shut for health and safety.”
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