Killjoy council comes under fire for not letting autistic boy have trampoline

A section assembly is facing disapproval aft ordering the parents of a four-year-old autistic lad to instrumentality down his trampoline and plaything set.

Four-year-old Hunter had the acceptable built for him astatine his location successful Sturry, Kent, due to the fact that helium struggles playing successful nationalist spaces.

But Canterbury City Council (CCC) has said it is simply a health and information hazard contempt determination being nary complaints from neighbours.

Parents Owen Houlton and Paige Kelly forked retired £150 for it and anticipation that communal consciousness volition present prevail.

Owen said: ‘We lone installed it due to the fact that Hunter keeps escaping from the park, and it’s conscionable not safe.

‘Having our ain small abstraction is truthful overmuch safer and kinder for him.

‘When we spell to the parkland and there’s different kids there, helium can’t truly speak.

‘He’s got astir 30 words successful his vocabulary astatine the minute, truthful helium gets upset and different kids are horrible to him, calling him a baby.

‘I’m blessed to instrumentality the plaything down wholly each nighttime and past someway unafraid the trampoline truthful nary 1 other tin usage it.

‘Our neighbours don’t usage the plot and they’ve told america arsenic overmuch – they haven’t got a occupation with it.

‘We conscionable privation a spot of leeway, a speech to beryllium capable to speech it out, arsenic I don’t deliberation the assembly understands however important this is to us.

‘I consciousness rather upset arsenic we’ve explained wherefore we request it and we’ve tried to conscionable them fractional mode astir it.

‘They’ve met america with a ceramic wall.’

Paige moved into the flats past twelvemonth and said Owen visits regular to assistance with the children.

Hunter has been playing connected the trampoline and swings for 2 months and asks ‘every day’ if helium tin spell out.

A missive sent to her sent by CCC pursuing a regular inspection gave her 48 hours to region the equipment.

Owen accused the authorization of hypocrisy, saying neighbouring flats person ornaments specified arsenic vertebrate baths contempt tenancy agreements stating nary items tin beryllium erected successful the garden.

He besides said a heap of rubbish has sat uncleared for immoderate clip and is attracting rats.

He added: ‘The assembly travel circular and bash inspections each the clip – it’s similar they’re noticing worldly but being picky astir what they privation to punish radical for.’

Canterbury City Council says determination is nary country for dialog connected Hunter’s play equipment.

A assembly spokesperson said: ‘While we person each sympathy with the family’s situation, the tenancy statement that radical motion up to erstwhile moving into a assembly location is precise wide that communal areas cannot beryllium utilized successful this way.

‘A communal country is for the usage of each the tenants surviving successful the properties, and we person to beryllium just and use this regularisation to everybody.

‘There are evident risks if residents instal their ain instrumentality successful these areas, with nary supervision and nary warrant of its information oregon suitability for use.

‘We are blessed to speech this implicit with the household directly, but this is not an contented wherever we tin negotiate, and we bash expect this trampoline to beryllium removed arsenic we person requested.

‘We volition besides tackle the interest they person raised astir rubbish successful the garden.’

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