A mum has spoken of her frustration at being forced to take down her children’s trampoline.

Amicus Horizon ordered Natasha Gore to remove the equipment from a communal garden in Short Street, Sheerness.

The mum-of-two bought the 8ft trampoline with a net surround to ease her son Alfie’s hyper-mobility which affects his joints.

She said doctors advised her a trampoline would help strengthen his knees and ankles.

After a long-running disagreement over the issue, Miss Gore said she was shocked when the housing association ordered her to take it down by the end of January for health and safety reasons.

She complied with the ultimatum, but her frustration remains.

“It’s not just a trampoline, it was my son’s main form of physio,” she said. “Why leave it two years then tell me to take it down?

“Obviously my kids are upset, they just want their trampoline back.”

Miss Gore, 31, and her family, comprising boyfriend, Daren , 41, Alfie, seven, and Megan, three, live in a block of six flats.

She said the communal garden is used by other youngsters, but the trampoline was for her children only.

According to Miss Gore, AmicusHorizon agreed to her request for a trampoline when she made an approach in 2013.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s down to me whether or not a trampoline’s safe for my children” - Natasha Gore

Eileen Martin, the housing association’s Kent regional director, said the decision to ask for the equipment to be removed wasn’t taken lightly but they had a duty of care for the garden’s other users. She said: “In a recent report published by the Royal Society For The Prevention Of Accidents they found trampolines account for up to 50% of A&E admissions for injuries in the home sustained by children.”

Miss Gore said she offered to sign a disclaimer to offset health and safety fears, but this was not acceptable to the association.

“As far as I’m concerned, it’s down to me whether or not a trampoline’s safe for my children,” she said.

“I’m now going to have to pay to send Alfie to trampoline lessons and spend money I haven’t really got.”

Ms Martin said: “We’re quite happy for the resident to use temporary play equipment in the garden and have suggested a fold away trampoline that she could put away when it’s not in use.

“We’ve also offered to help find the resident more suitable accommodation with a private garden where she could keep a trampoline.”