F URTHER to the article headed "City's play area revamps completed before public-spending cuts bite" (Post, August 14) which lauded the success of the scheme that "the city's parks" department finished in 18 months' apparently, I am writing to express my disbelief that the long list of parks described as "revamped" included Horfield Common (Ardagh).

Far from having been revamped in the last 18 months, this play area has not been revamped for decades – what a cheek!

Improvements made to the play areas in other parks across the city have seen lots of play equipment replaced, which was already newer than any of that in the playground on Horfield Common, and yet this playground continues to be neglected.

The lack of investment on Horfield Common is a cause of huge frustration to the many children, large number of young people and increasing numbers of families who live in the area.

In the light of the council's recently published Area Green Space Plans, the statement in this article adds a further insult to injury for people living in the Horfield Common area.

In the AGSP the council is proposing to sell Wellington Hill Playing Field – a space used by hundreds of local children to play in because it has been deemed to be "surplus to requirements as open space".

The council is also proposing to close down the facilities at the Ardagh for playing tennis and for bowling.

The provision of recreational and play opportunities for young (and older) people, children and families who live in the Horfield Common (Ardagh) area appear to be being either completely ignored by BCC, or actively reduced when the numbers of people in the area with children appears to be increasing.

Why, BCC – why? And Councillor Beynon's suggestion that we're "really lucky" to have had the imaginary revamp... well, polite words fail me.

Joanna Moore, Horfield.