The Lancashire Telegraph has reported that repeated vandalism attacks on Corporation Park's bowling green in Blackburn, could force the green to close.
The latest in a spate of incidents occured last week and saw metal fencing, erected to deter vandals, dismantled and strewn across the green.
The Lancashire Post showed Chairman John Flannery and park warden Emma Fielding surveying the destruction
Police are examining CCTV footage from the scene.
The paper reported that over the past year, bowlers have complained of teenagers climbing through hedges to get onto the green in the evenings to play football, smoke, or walk their dogs on the green.
John Flannery, chairman of the Corporation Park supporters’ group and keen bowler, said he was becoming increasingly worried that the green will no longer be fit for use.
“We put up those fences to try to maintain the hedges that they were climbing through, and now this happens.
“It’s just one thing after another, and now our greenkeeper is saying that we’ll probably have to close if this carries on.
“A certain group of teenagers come on here and we’ve tried to talk to them about it, or tell them to move, and we’ve just got abuse.
“It’s reaching a point now where we just don’t know what to do.”
The green at the park, like all other bowling greens in the borough, is now self-managed, meaning that John and other members pay annual fees of around £1,000 to pay for the upkeep of the green.
John added: “It might not seem like much money to some people.
“But we just can’t keep forking out every time something else gets damaged, and it would just be such a shame if it had to close.”
