IT'S A disgrace that the council did not listen to 63 per cent of people that want the gate open. It is the people's park.

I have happy memories from childhood in the park often driving from the quay through the park passing Evening Hill and down to Sandbanks with my elderly members of my family.

If I am feeling low I always go through the park to see the beautiful swans and everything Poole Park has to offer.

But now have to turn round and go out the same way as coming in.

If it is about omissions by cars and ridiculous claims it is a rat run without any evidence, people are queuing to get out causing more omissions by idling engines.

It’s been open for 130 years, it’s affecting the business in the park, it needs to be open.

M Cunningham

Parkstone