In contrast to our last post on drug users, the local Explorer Group started doing small projects in the Park last summer. One of the projects was to create a tree pit around the Jubilee Oak, which they then planted with bulbs last Autumn – their hard work has now come to fruition.
The Explores will be back this year after Easter. We look forward to working with them again in 2024.
The Park has been used for a number of years by drug users and even dealers. This became a major issue when the Park was not looked after back in the 2000’s and was one of the reasons why the Friends were formed.
Unfortunately, incidents of this and related anti-social behaviours are growing again. Evidence of drug taking has been found this week in both the Orchard, and in a shelter that has been dismantled on the wooded slopes. The activity takes place in some of the more isolated places in the Park, especially in the bottom copse and on the wooded slope.
We’ve had discussions with both Meadfleet (the people responsible for the land) and the Police and have been asked to report incidents when found.
We’d therefore like to ask park users if they spot any evidence of drug taking to report it to us on parkinsonspark@gmail.com – if you have photographic evidence of where and what please send that too. We’ll be compiling a regular report.
Picture – a shelter that has been dismantled where drug packets were found
Friends of Parkinson's Park CIC 
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