Families select their favourite design for new-look Wandsworth Common playground

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Families select their favourite design for new-look Wandsworth Common playground

Postby Community Editor » Tue Jul 27, 2021 11:47 am

Parents and children have made their choice of design for the new look Windmill playground on Wandsworth Common.

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The £201,000 project is part of a £1m council investment in children’s play areas over the past three years.

Residents were given a choice of three different designs as part of a detailed public consultation held at the end of last year and the overwhelming majority – 70 per cent - backed the same option.

Based on the feedback received the council has tweaked this favoured option so that all the suggestions from local people can be incorporated into a final design.

These suggestions included requests for a different design of climbing frame that offers more variety and more challenging play options, the removal of musical play items and the inclusion of a basket see-saw.

Now families and children living in the area are being given a final chance to register their views on the latest version of the scheme. They can view the preferred design and choice of play equipment and have their say at https://haveyoursay.citizenspace.com/wandsworthecs/windmill-21

As part of the proposed improvements, the plan is to extend the playground into an adjacent area of grass with limited biodiversity value. As well as allowing for the playground to have a better flow, the extension will provide extra space for informal games and leisure without limiting the area given over to play equipment. It would also provide an opportunity to encourage wildlife through improved biodiversity planting. 

Environment spokesman Cllr Steffi Sutters said: “We are grateful to everyone who took part in the last consultation. They gave us a clear message about which design they preferred and how it could be tweaked to make it even better.

“Based on that feedback and the popularity of the option that’s been chosen we are in a position to move ahead with the project and deliver an excellent new playground for local children.

“We have also discovered that these changes will not need approval from the secretary of state as we had originally thought and so that clears an important planning hurdle that could have led to a delay in implementing the scheme.

“We are now showing people the final set of proposals in case they have any additional comments they wish to make.”
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