Arson attack on hut in Bispham's Moor Park will not stop park’s volunteers

A voluntary group which looks after Moor Park in Bispham is looking into using a more robust hut after the current one was torched in a vandal attack.

The park’s wooden hut was seriously damaged after the arson attack on New Year’s Day, with firefighters called out at 8.54pm.

Members of the Friends of Moor Park were devastated by yet another vandal attack on theirshed, which is intended to provide secure storage for tools and a meeting place for volunteers involved in maintaining and improving the park.

Now the hut is boarded up an out of use, while police investigate the crime after bei8ng given a suspect’s name.

Blackpool Councillor Jon Bamborough, a member of the Friends of Moor Park said: “We’ve held a meeting to discuss things and in the meantine we boarded up the hut and made it safe.

“We’re still looking at the potential option of using shipping containers instead of a wooden shed. It woukd be much more robust, it’s just a question pf how to transport it and put it in place.

“In the meantime the police are followimg up their inquiries. They have been given a name so they are activiuely pursuing a suspect.”

The hut was funded after two years of community fundraising by the Friends group but it has become the repeated target of vandalism since being installed in November and now its future is in doubt.

Despite the setback, the volunteers will continue to activey work to maintain and imprive the prk.