Fears for Marine Cove confidence when open to a public

Fears for Marine Cove confidence when open to a public

8:30pm Tuesday 16th Aug 2011

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VANDALS have pounded an iconic Burnham landmark, that is now partial of a £344,000 replacement project.

CCTV footage shows dual people violation into Marine Cove, whereby steel fences were pushed over and a mill round was dumped into a refurbished pond.

Harley Cook, Sedgemoor District Council’s parks and open spaces officer, said: “There was singular damage, though a categorical regard is that this happened when a site was fenced off and there’s more
risk of desolation when it’s open to a open 24/7.”

A mill ball, that had been partial of an architectural underline of 7 pillars, was pushed into a pool during a conflict in a early hours final Sunday.

Mr Cook said: “They motionless to use it like it was a football.” But he combined a offenders also put their possess lives during risk.

He said: “They walked along a arbour roof, a array of beams, and had they have slipped between them they could have damaged their necks.”

The beauty mark was awarded a income from a Heritage Lottery Fund to revive it to a former excellence when it initial non-stop in 1926.

Volunteers formerly teamed-up to assistance reconstruct a walls, including Friends of a Marine Cove Gardens Group and Dreamscheme members.

Work includes relaying disproportionate cement slabs, refurbishment of a goldfish pool and shelters, that have been boarded up.