Conisbrough Council’s Patience Exhausted.

Conisbrough Urban Council are to take stronger action against future offenders caught breaking windows, damaging bus shelters, public seats and kiosks.

At Monday’s meeting, Coun. T. Hill said ‘We have previously let our hearts rule our heads, but we shall now prosecute instead of being too sympathetic. Thousands of pounds worth of damage have been done and it is up to the parents to stop their children doing this sort of thing otherwise we shall have to prosecute’.

It was reported that 16 panes of glass had been broken in one kiosk in the Northcliffe recreation ground. ‘We cannot afford this sort of thing,’ said Coun. D. Sheldon, Chairman of the Finance Committee. ‘We have just built two new bus shelters and I hope they are not touched,’ he added.

‘It has got to a terrible pass when we cannot keep a window in kiosks and bus shelters,’ said the Chairman of the Council, Ald. Ben Roberts, J.P. ‘But I am sure all the damage is not done by small children but by lads of 15, 16, an 17 and even some of 20 years old,’ he said.

Coun. George Cheshire said that the two new bus shelters were the trial stages of a five year plan to build bus shelters in the area. ‘It depends on how these two are treated whether we shall be able to afford more. Parents should impress upon their children that these should not be tampered with,’ he said.