Pupils at a St Asaph primary school have been locked out of their playing field for more than 18 months.

A fence was put up around the field at Ysgol Esgob Morgan on safety grounds after hundreds of rocks were found beneath the surface and deemed too dangerous to play in.

The site was developed by St Asaph-based company Pure Residential and Commercial Ltd, which gave the land to the school while constructing 21 properties nearby.

Representatives from the company visited the school, consulting with pupils as to what they wanted, from which it was agreed a park would be constructed.

The park was built once the houses were completed and was eventually handed over to the school. Soon afterwards, a year five pupil fell and gashed their knee open. Upon inspection it became clear there were hundreds of rocks all over the site. Pure were contacted and a fence appeared a few weeks later.

Headteacher Tim Redgrave said he had made attempts to contact Pure asking when the fences would be coming down, but despite some small works in the summer last year, the site had just been abandoned to overgrow with weeds.

Mr Redgrave said: “The school and Denbighshire County Council have repeatedly asked for them (Pure) to sort out the problems over a number of years now and I think our children deserve better.”

Ysgol Esgob Morgan contacted the Journal last week since which time, two Pure employees were said to have attended the site to attempt to ‘hand pick’ all the rocks from the site.

The park is used as a cut-through for pupils to walk to and from school and is a safe place for them to meet parents at the end of the day.

The closure of the park has left pupils upset and confused as to when they will have it back.

Secretary of the school council Josh Osborne said: “We used to enjoy playing on the park while our mums were chatting on the yard and now we can’t do that.”

Vice chair of the school council Daniel Jones said: "The fences don’t look very nice and when we had lots of bad wind they would blow down so we couldn’t play outside.

“We just want our field and the park we were promised to be back and safe to play on in the summer.”

The Journal contacted Pure but had received no response at the time of going to press.