A councillor has complained about “too much bureaucracy” after a 14 month wait for new security fencing to be installed around football pitches.

Councillor Curt Pugh said South Park Rangers Football Club, which is based at Smith’s Dock Park, Normanby , had been “terrorised” by off road bikers who regularly caused damage after riding onto pitches.

Cllr Pugh, who represents the Normanby ward and another councillor, Teesville member Peter Chaney, approached Redcar and Cleveland Council after hearing of the concerns and were grateful when officers suggested that fencing and funding from a previously aborted project in Grangetown could be repurposed for use at the park. However approval was required from the Tees Valley Combined Authority which part-funded the Grangetown project fro

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