P L A Y carried out extensive consultations to discover what the local community wanted from the new play area.

• Questionnaires were hand delivered and collected from every house in the parish

• Young children were consulted through meetings at the village nursery and the primary school

• Older children were invited to give their views at a separate evening

All responses were carefully collated and considered prior to the design briefing for the play area.

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One of the consultations involving children discovered
some interesting results of their choices for a play area.

The development of the project
Thanks to generous donations, the first pieces of equipment installed for the infant play area were a 'Toddler Kingdom' unit and three 'Springies'

'Toddler Kingdom' under construction

'Toddler Kingdom': the finished job with the springies in front.

PLAY's stall at the Leigh Summer Show 2008, showing plans for the play area

Meeting to make the next order of equipment
The next phase of development is under way following a meeting on 7 October 2008 of PLAY with Paul Cordell of the Forestry Commission and David Lock of Halcyon Play. 
A plan to install natural equipment was created.

A basketball hoop, identified for the older sector of children surveyed, was erected and some new gates installed, a bird's nest swing and a double zip wire were constructed and opened in January 2009.  Picture shows the double zip wire which was paid for by the Surrey County Council and being opened by Councillor Helyn Clack.

The existing climbing frame has been repaired and is now incorporated into the new play area.

A 'stump' with a slide has been constructed on the mound, and is being actively used by children, and there are picnic tables nearby.  The new climbing wall and the large swings are now in place, leaving only the shelter to be constructed and the final finish with an attractive board listing our major donors.

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