“"I'm alright, Jack" as well, Gary (from Truro) as the issue with the playground doesn't really affect me directly either. But it is precisely this type of attitude which needs to be reviewed. It really is not helpful to the general debate about how best we can improve the lives of very many citizens of Cornwall. This is what should be at the heart of everyone's efforts, whether they are figures in public office or those of us who are private citizens. We all have a duty and a responsibility to lead by example.”

“Graham Coad, the west may need these due to some perceived "deprivation", but having seen the way the "citizens" of Redruth treat the facilities given them by the taxpayer, isn't it rather throwing good money away?”

“Lucky for me I live in Truro and neither Bodmin or Deadruth, I never visit these horrible places!”

“Even though I live at Hillside Park Bodmin, I think Redruth is a good site for the adventure play park. However Bodmin still needs a children`s playground but it should be one adequate for the town not a spectacular for visitors from all over. The small playgrounds we have in Bodmin do not go much beyond a couple of swings and a slide. Pathetic! I have visited Wadebridge`s kiddies` play area and it is magnificent. It is a very long park on the banks of the River Camel with areas for different age groups, crowded with all sorts of apparatus and amusements. Similarly St Austell has a magnificent park with facilities for all ages. I used to walk through this park to school as a child. Then it only had a few swings and I think there was bowls and tennis. But St Austell has progressed with the times and has turned this park between the library and the colleges into a playground for the 21st century. We desperately need something like this in Bodmin. And it should not be at Hillside Park. There was a small children`s park here previously built in the early 1990s. But it was tiny built on the only space not in conflict with the town leat running underneath. In the Winter Hillside Park turns into almost a swamp, not so much because of the leat but because it is at the bottom of a valley with watershed hills all around. I would suggest to the East of the town would be better, a little to the East of the football club and not too far from the centre of town. As for Bodmin not having a railway station - we do have one called Bodmin General but only tourist attraction steam locomotives run there. Something should be done about that, too, so that people can actually travel to the centre of the town by train. Mr Quinnell tells me that there are plans to extend this tourist attraction railway all the way along the Camel Trail to Wadebridge. Who is doing the planning for Bodmin?`It is a hodge podge of short sighted endeavours, in my view.”

“Perhaps Redruth would like all the extra housing to go with this funding? We didn't ask for all these extra people to flood intoBodmin we have enough problems now. Who is going to pay and provide for all the extra amenities I better it won't be Truro.”

“£700,000 for tree houses, dens and other structures as part of their play and learning environment? They're having a laugh aren't they Dunmere Woods and Cardinham woods are free! Stop whinging and join the real world!”

“I can understand people being disappointed when they do not 'win' in the funding process, but people from other parts of Cornwall should COME to Redruth and other areas in the west and see for themselves the deprivation in some areas that makes West Cornwall qualify for more funding. Its gets allocated here because it's NEEDED here.”