The Town Council is urging residents who witness antisocial behaviour or vandalism to Town Council-maintained property to report it to the police.
The message follows a spate of vandalism at the Western Road Recreation Ground, including damage to items of play equipment in the children’s play area and more recently, graffiti on the public noticeboard on site.
The graffiti is scheduled to be removed by Aquarius Solutions tomorrow [8 November], who, having cleaned up other graffiti across the town in recent weeks, has kindly agreed to remove the graffiti on the noticeboard free of charge for the Town Council and Hailsham residents.
“We are appalled by the recent spate of vandalism at the Western Road Recreation Ground,” said Town Mayor Cllr Paul Holbrook. “This is vandalism on a facility used daily by our community and is unacceptable anti-social behaviour.”
“A lot of money and time goes into maintaining the town’s recreational spaces and providing these much-needed facilities in the local community so, if anyone has any information regarding the recent and future incidents or witnessed any behaviour on Town Council land that looks suspicious, please report it to Sussex Police as early as possible.”
Cllr Holbrook added: “It’s not immediately obvious what the motive of these recent acts of vandalism and graffiti was, other than to spoil residents’ enjoyment of these much-needed community facilities.”
The Town Council is encouraging residents to report any future incidents of vandalism to the police immediately by calling 101.
Town-Council maintained land and property includes the following:
A full list of land and properties maintained by the Town Council is available at hailsham-tc.gov.uk.
Terry Hall, Communications Officer
Hailsham Town Council, Market Street, Hailsham, East Sussex, BN27 2AE
Telephone: 01323 841702 | Email: terry.hall@hailsham-tc.gov.uk