QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Oct 22 2012, 07:51 PM)
Yes, it has been like that before, and the ground recovers amazingly in a short time. Nature, you see......
QUOTE (On the edge @ Oct 24 2012, 12:57 PM)
Horses can do just as much damage and there are other examples where a little ground work quickly restores what often seem irrecoverable situations.
Nobody is saying that it's irrecoverable and I don't doubt that Nature will lend it's hand and see that the area is back and usable at some time in the near (or not so near) future, but it IS unnecessary and it does happen at the wrong time of the year for that recovery to be a rapid recovery.
Damage happens every year at Glastonbury and the like and I imagine the recovery is pretty quick because of the time of year it occurs. BUT those music festivals take place with the full support of the landowners and don't impact greatly on surrounding residents. The fact that local kids can't kick a ball around the weeks after the music festival ends is of no consequence because they couldn't generally do that before anyway.
With Goldwell Park there may be permission from the Town Council to use it (assuming they maintain it?) but the local kids are not going to be able to use it for a kick about for quite some time afterwards and they WERE able to use it beforehand.
Anyway I'm off to help gather the horses in from the park.....
(i agree it's not on the Somme level of mud frolics)