RESIDENTS of a Cardigan housing estate locked in a long-running dispute with a housing association over a local play area have been told there are no plans to reinstate children’s play equipment on the site.

Members of The North Cardigan Action and Support Group have been campaigning for the return of swings, a climbing frame and a slide since they were removed by Tai Ceredigion in October 2013.

Relations between the two sides worsened after the housing association’s application for nine houses on the site was turned down, the residents say.

However, residents’ hopes of retaining the land by securing village green status were quashed at a public inquiry last year.

Group secretary Teresa Harries said the question of when the play equipment would be reinstated was one she heard daily.

“We just want our community patch back,” she told the Cambrian News.

“I was there the day they took that play equipment out – and I was there when the kids came home crying.

“We are not the ones being affected – it’s the children who are suffering.

“There’s over 200 houses on this estate and I don’t think people realise what a close-knit community still exists down here."

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