THE problem with play areas (Rethink ordered on play areas, Shuttle/Times and News, June 27) is that the new Wyre Forest District Council administration has simply not used the time allowed - and very deliberately built into the budget strategy - to find new ways of managing, funding and protecting as many play areas as possible.

That is why the proposals must be looked at again or we will end up with the worst case scenario of which the budget quite rightly warned.

COUNCILLOR MIKE OBORSKI

Osborne Close, Kidderminster