The parents of an autistic four-year-old boy have slammed a killjoy council after being ordered to remove his trampoline and swing set - for health and safety reasons.
Owen Houlton and Paige Kelly installed the £150 play equipment for their son Hunter, who struggles to use public parks because of his severe autism.
Dad Owen said having their own space in the communal garden in Sturry, Kent, for Hunter to play is "much safer and kinder for him".
Owen Houlton and Paige Kelly installed the £150 play equipment for their son Hunter, who struggles to use public parks because of his severe autism.
Dad Owen said having their own space in the communal garden in Sturry, Kent, for Hunter to play is "much safer and kinder for him".
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00:00So Hunter's four, he had quite a lot of health problems growing up and then the last couple
00:05years we started noticing bits of autism just popping out of him. He's started to struggle a
00:11lot more, especially socially, now he's starting to talk more and he's starting to get to that age
00:15where he wants to play with other children and it's just really difficult for him because they
00:20don't understand him, they call him baby because he can only speak a couple of words. We've had
00:26to try and clean about two to three months now. Every day he asks to come out and it's out of the
00:33way, it's nice and safe. I feel quite upset that we've explained why we need it and we've tried to
00:45meet them halfway about it, saying that we'll make it safe for when he's not using it, even though
00:51we're the only people who actually use this garden in the block of flats and they've just
00:57met us with just a brick wall really.