Little Woodhouse Online

This photo shows a group of first year students infringing the byelaws by having a barbeque on Hanover Square this afternoon. The smoke from it could be smelt on the other side of the square.

They told me they were unaware that barbeques are illegal in Leeds’ parks and added that they would not have lit the barbeque had there been signs at the entrance to the square advising that barbeques are prohibited.

One of them claimed that what they were doing was harmless, and that instead of speaking to them, I should be speaking to the people who use the square for drug taking.

This afternoon, Hanover Square was full of young people, drawn there by the warm weather and by the square’s beauty. Unfortunately, many of them left their litter behind them when they left, and by 3.15pm the square was already sprinkled with litter.