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The
Playways project will provide Thornhill children with access
to high quality, outdoor play opportunities.
Six
sites across Thornhill - Hinkler Green, Lydgate Green, Thornhill
Park , Hannay Rise, Burke Drive Route and Dumbleton Park -
will benefit from the new play facilities. The designs for
the Playways project will consider the locations in which
the play spaces exist, encouraging natural play through a
mix of equipment and landscaping and challenging and stimulating
children physically in an outdoor environment.
Thornhill
Plus You are overseeing the management of the project on behalf
of Southampton City Council's Play Services. The project has
received funding of £300,000 from the Department of
Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) through the Playbuilder
programme and £225,000 by Thornhill Plus You (New Deal
for Communities).
Children,
young people and parents of Thornhill have been engaged throughout
the consultation process at various children focused events,
play days and at local schools and youth centres . Their feedback
has helped shape the designs of the play spaces, which were
produced by Capita, with support from Groundwork Solent.
The
work started (though not simultaneously) on Monday, 26 January
and are scheduled to be completed by Tuesday, 31 March.
The
4 play sites are:
- Hannay
Rise (a new play area)
- Lydgate
Green (improvements and additions to the existing play area)
- Hinkler
Green (improvements and additions to the existing play area)
- Dumbleton
Park (a new play area behind the Dumbleton Towers car park,
next to the off-road bike track)
Works
on two other play sites are already underway. These are:
- Thornhill
Park (a woodland area between Masefield Green, Thornhill
Park Road , Byron Road and Browning Avenue )
- New
play space to be created as part of the Better Neighbourhood
project between the 8 walk-up blocks in Gerard Crescent
, Byron Road and Burke Drive .
These
2 play sites are scheduled for completion by the end of February.
For
more information about the Playways project please contact
Michael Nightingale on 0800 159 5561 or email mnightingale@thornhillplusyou.co.uk.
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