The council is providing new disabled toilets and has upgraded the playground in Park Hill Recreation Ground – with the result that one happy local mum has described it as “my daughter’s new paradise”.
Fun times: one young user is delighted with the new equipment in Park Hill
The playground was designed in collaboration with local families and the Friends of Park Hill Park.
It is more accessible for wheelchair users, featuring fully accessible entrances, new wheelchair-friendly equipment and 25 play structures that, according to the council, “have been approved by children”.
There is a separate area for toddlers, twice the number of swings, and now a wider range of play options for children aged up to 12.
The council spent £140,000 on the improvements to the town centre open space – the money coming from payments made by developers towards local inrastructure as a condition of their planning permission.
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Dirty money, it’s come from skyscraper money.
Yeah, well, you know what they say, Carl: it’s all swings and roundabouts
Fair play, you gave me a chuckle!
For once the Council actually spent what it has saved on facilities and the public realm.
All the development at Broad Green and not a sausage on anything.
I suspect the locations of many neglected parks have something to do with this administration’s priorities.
Park Hill families and Friends got together and worked to get that upgrade and fair play to them and well done. No one should begrudge them the rewards for that work they have done. It will benefit many families and residents hopefully for years to come. The work done by them should be celebrated..
Nor though should this detract from the reality that this Council has failed residents and failed to provide safe public parks/ recreation grounds in many areas across the Borough.
A bit of tokenism does not change the rot and lack of maintenance across the public estate in Croydon.