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Thursday, 1 February, 2018
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Narre Community Learning Centre chief executive Wayne Hewitt in a children's playground, next door to the abandoned gym. 177120
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Staff have also tried to deter loiterers from hanging outside their playground fence. The inside of the centre has been trashed by intruders. Every surface - including the large, empty pool - is tagged with layers of graffiti. Holes are punched in walls, bathroom
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"A long-abandoned leisure centre in Narre Warren has become a hive of vandals, drug users and squatters - just metres from a neighbouring playgroup. Children and staff look out from Narre
Community Learning Centre's playground onto the ruins of the former Rebound Fitness Club at 5 Rebound Court. In full view are dumped shopping trolleys, bins, graffiti-strewn walls and a makeshift table with milk-crate seats and a discarded bong.
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