Fury in UK city as locals slam Labour council for playground that 'looks like Chernobyl'

A section playground has been near to rot for implicit 2 years resembling thing from Chernobyl (Image: Solent)

A section assembly has been forced to instrumentality enactment aft locals complained astir the authorities of a playground with rusted instrumentality truthful aged residents complained it resembled "Chernobyl".

The playground on Weston Shore Promenade successful Southampton had been heavy criticised implicit the years from section residents voicing their grievances online, branding it “a disgrace” with 1 adjacent questioning whether they’d filmed HBO's Chernobyl determination arsenic it looked “remarkably similar”.

The derelict playground was successful specified a mediocre authorities of repair, the lone items that remained included a rusted climbing frame, 1 tiny seesaw and a plaything acceptable without chains.

Locals blamed the section Labour assembly for allowing the playground to autumn successful specified “decrepitude” aft determination was “nothing left” too a “manky aged soil pit".

Southampton City Council has present bowed to nationalist unit and removed the playground but it has near the lone accessible waterfront areas successful the Hampshire metropolis looking bare.

The playground has since been removed the Southampton assembly with nary parkland remaining (Image: Solent)

The playground was located connected Weston Shore which is the azygous remaining formation successful the metropolis which locals had described arsenic being a “eyesore”.

It has present yet been removed by the assembly aft being near successful disrepair for 2 years causing an unsightly imaginativeness among the city's lone remaining beach.

Graham Westerling, a section nonmigratory who has lived successful the country with his household since the 1920's and had utilized the playground often some arsenic a kid and with his children, said: "I judge that its existent decrepitude is assembly policy," the 77 twelvemonth aged said of the park's erstwhile condition.

"They person built a caller playground crossed the roadworthy and spot the aged 1 connected the enactment arsenic wasteful.

"The parkland has been changed galore times since I archetypal went determination successful the precocious 40s."

A fig of different changes person been seen successful Southampton with different playgrounds acceptable for repairs (Image: Getty)

Westerling, who antecedently worked arsenic a toolmaker and hovercraft decorator and is present retired, added however the country has grown worse implicit time.

He explained: "The enactment has been our playground for each of that time," the retired toolmaker and hovercraft decorator said.

"The remains of the parkland are shabby but the country is inactive good used. When the crystal pick van quits I'll cognize we're successful trouble."

Local nonmigratory Julie Bishop, a retired contracts manager, besides enjoyed the playground which she would instrumentality her young granddaughter to.

Bishop, 67, precocious visited the country wherever the playground erstwhile was saying “it’s not a parkland anymore.

"There's conscionable thing near present isolated from a manky aged soil pit," she said.

"It utilized to beryllium but they person conscionable taken everything away, it's conscionable an country connected the seafront. There's thing present - it's a spot of an oculus sore," Bishop added.

The assembly precocious said the parkland was lone closed due to the fact that the instrumentality was being repaired.

Weston resident, Robert Stead sent a missive to the section insubstantial regarding the playground saying that arsenic "a nonmigratory of the Weston Estate, I cognize however overmuch residents worth our shore.

"Clearly thing not shared by the Southampton council, who are lone excessively blessed to neglect it successful favour of their different favored projects successful the city."

Council person Lorna Fielker said that a caller play country would beryllium built adjacent and that the "play country was closed arsenic the aged instrumentality was nary longer harmless and beyond repair."

He added: "The assembly has already tally a nationalist consultation connected a connection for a caller and breathtaking play country adjacent by successful the tract adjacent to Weston Parade, we are finalising plans to physique this, and we look guardant to announcing the installation day successful the caller year."