The Manaresi Park in Aprilia is closed by the Latina ASL: the health company communicated this in a note to the municipality of the northern Pontine
It was the five-star activist Andrea Ragusa who reported the state of degradation in which the Manaresi Park in Aprilia finds itself. “I went to Manaresi Park – declared Ragusa – and I put my hands in my hair in seeing the state of the play area, created to also be used by disabled children. Games which apparently lack the expected periodic maintenance, peppered with some acts of vandalism.
There are no trauma mats, no containment boards to prevent children from falling, no protruding screws, no roof of the central play area with a possible fall risk, and so on. And Manaresi is not the only park in these conditions.”
The Latina Local Health Authority took the situation head-on and carried out an inspection of the green area, with a result that doesn’t leave much room for the imagination: “All the children’s attractions in the park are visibly deteriorated with exposed nails, wood splintered, torn walkways and obstacles on the ground that make them unusable safely”, writes the manager of the prevention department. Not to mention other critical issues such as “presence of broken manholes, abandoned masonry building containing waste, roofing and flooring of non-compliant attractions”.
Last June 13, the Municipality of Aprilia communicated to the Local Health Authority that it had banned the Manaresi park. However, the health company found something else: “During the inspection the area was not forbidden or cordoned off as documented in your note”. This is why “to protect the safety of users, we urgently request a ban on accessibility to the park pending its safety conditions”.
