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Haringey council is reviewing these outdated signs to encourage children to play outside — but the real causes of the obesity epidemic are harder to tackle. This reminds me of the time I crashed into one wearing rollerskates, thus proving it was possible to obey its instructions and yet still endanger your health. The miserliness of such signs seems to reinforce an unfortunate British attitude towards the idea of other people doing things: they are nimby-ism made concrete, or rather metal.
Their place in our landscape was sent up by the artist Banksy in a mural which showed two children playing catch with the sign. Such instructions forbidding ball games — and, sometimes, rollerskating too — are not even enforceable by law: they are simply there to discourage and to prod, yet their continued presence suggests a long history of uncomfortable relations between children and adults on British estates.
Use of the signs rose in tandem with the litany of rules, both written and unwritten, surrounding the maintenance of order and respectability on early council estates, built to house or contain, depending on your view of things working-class families from urban streets on which it was assumed that chaos reigned.
The key to tacking this conflict is to reach a compromise that satisfies everyone. However, ball games deliberately and persistently played recklessly and leading to property damage can be classed as anti-social behaviour which we take seriously. We take a neutral, balanced view on the issue of ball games and expect residents to take responsibility in their own neighbourhood and work together to reach a compromise.
Our new website. Close alert. ASB - ball games Every spring and summer there is a rise in complaints about children playing ball games in public places. Are ball games a problem?
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