DEAR EDITOR - I am writing in response to the article in the Bromsgrove Advertiser regarding the plans for a new Skateboard Park in Catshill village.

As a suffering resident of the current skateboard park - Redcar Close, Off Epsom Road - I can assure you that such a prospect is a dream come true for the families that live here. At present we have to endure anywhere up to 30 plus skateboarding children in a small close that only has 11 houses.

Our fences are ripped down to make ramps, our cars dented and scratched and our gardens littered. Younger children are too intimidated to play outside their own homes.

We witness parents from elsewhere in Catshill drop their children off here after school, often with packed lunches for their tea, and return to collect them later as it gets dark!! These parents should be ashamed of themselves, as I'm sure they would be equally appalled were we to drop our children outside their front door each and every evening. A new skateboard park cannot come quickly enough, but until it does I urge parents from Catshill to please discourage their children from congregating here. The six weeks holidays are looming and the families of Redcar Close are absolutely dreading it.

Miss P Harrison

Redcar Close

Catshill

Bromsgrove