Skegness Police Seek Funding to Reduce Violent Assaults
There’s an article in the Skegness Standard: Skegness police seek funding to reduce violent assaults http://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/Skegness-police-seek-funding-to.5728193.jp Skegness police are trying to obtain £15,000 in funding… To tackle this type of behaviour he (Inspector Terry Ball) is hoping to get £15,000 to allow the police to set up diversionary activities on 32 nights of the year […]
Skegness Teenagers on the Sunshine Play Area Problem
As regular late evening walkers in Skegness we’ve seen teenagers hanging around the Sunshine Play Area in the late evening. At times there’s over 20 teenagers hanging out and messing around on the play equipment and some are not exactly careful with the play equipment designed for young children! We understand there’s been a lot […]
Skegness Sunshine Play Area Expansion
Despite the bad behaviour of some teenagers in Skegness vandalizing the Skegness Sunshine play area, the Skegness Town Council have given the go ahead for the Sunshine Play Area to be expanded with play equipment designed for teens. The new play equipment will be a little further down from the Skegness Sunshine Play Area, so […]
Skegness Sculpture Park
The councils would love to bring a sculpture park to Skegness some where on the Skegness foreshore. Chief executive Nigel Howells told a town/district liaison meeting: “It’s a wonderful idea – people love sculptures, especially if they can crawl all over them, touch and feel them.” But at the moment due to the recession there’s […]
Nottingham Riviera Can’t Beat Skegness?
I stumbled upon this news article in the Skegness Standard during August where the local Skegness newspaper had written a report about the Nottingham Riviera Life is a beach. The Skegness Standard covered the report over a complaint supposedly by someone who went to the Nottingham Riviera and was disappointed by the urban beach and […]
Dog Mess in Skegness
Mayor Councilor Pat Phillips at Skegness Town Council’s meeting on Wednesday said: “The amount of dog fouling which is going on in this town is terrible. All around the bowling greens and all around the Pier Field is a dog waste haven.” It’s good the council has seen the problem first hand and are discussing […]
Should Skegness outdoor swimming pool be open longer?
“GRUMBLES that Skegness’ outdoor pool remains closed during the sunny days of early summer were sounded at a town/district liaison meeting. However, for costs reasons, East Lindsey District Council has no plans to bring forward the opening from July, heating and chemically treating the water – plus the cost of lifeguards – could not be […]
Was The Skegness SO Festival Money well Spent by the Council?
I often keep up to date on what’s happening in Skegness by following the local paper online every week. The Skegness Standard has a poll on various subjects and one of the polls asked this Question: was the SO Festival money well spent by the council. I immediately voted YES and was shocked when the […]
Skegness Could Learn From Budapest’s Modern Art Boating Lake
Skegness could learn a thing or too from Budapest. 15 artists from around the world have created 26 pieces of art which as been placed in a boating lake to attract visitors. Visitors to Budapest can row around the art installations, what a great idea, this would be something Skegness Boating lake could do to […]
Skegness Pier Toilets no Longer Funded by ELDC
Stuart Davy, ELDC strategic director has said: “These toilets have not received any investment for some considerable time and fall well below the standard that we would wish to be offering visitors to the resort.” I can understand East Lindsey District Council not wanting to be associated with below standard toilets, it puts the town […]
