Last week I stood in the rain outside Parsons Down Junior School in Derwent Road, Thatcham handing out leaflets to parents encouraging them to use the recently opened Park and Stride facility at the Thatcham Nature Discovery Centre. Not surprisingly a number of parents emailed me later to say that the surface of the car park had turned into a series of muddy puddles and they refused to park there. Several mothers told me that if it rains their children's clothes get covered in a wet, sandy mud. Also many mums go straight to work after the school run and dont want to turn up at work in 'clothes that look like they have been on a ten mile ramble through the countryside'.
The response from the West Berkshire Council's Conservative member for the Environment reiterated her view that the surface was 'fit for purpose'
See the lovely photo of the Park and Stride car park under water in the NWN of 26.4.2012
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