Trampolines added to outdoor play area in Slough
22/03/2010 Youngsters in the Slough area are to feel the benefits of outdoor play activities from a new facility which includes trampolines.
Deerwood Park is the 14th outdoor play area to undergo a makeover in the region and eight more are due to receive similar improvements thanks to a £1.2 million grant.
Among the new pieces of outdoor play equipment available are trampolines, a bank slide, hexagon swings, spacenet climbing and a roundabout. Some items have also been designed so they can be used by children with disabilities.
Councillor Natasa Pantelic, commissioner for education and children's services at Slough Borough Council, said; "I have seen so many children having fun on the new equipment, which shows that we are getting the design of the play areas right."
"It should be a right and not a luxury that children have access to Unit 6,
Banters Lane Trading Estate,
Great Leighs,
Essex,
CM3 1QX, good quality play area," she added.
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson recently released a report in which he said that children must start being more active.
He said that the fitness levels of British children were falling by nine per cent each decade.
Deerwood Park is the 14th outdoor play area to undergo a makeover in the region and eight more are due to receive similar improvements thanks to a £1.2 million grant.
Among the new pieces of outdoor play equipment available are trampolines, a bank slide, hexagon swings, spacenet climbing and a roundabout. Some items have also been designed so they can be used by children with disabilities.
Councillor Natasa Pantelic, commissioner for education and children's services at Slough Borough Council, said; "I have seen so many children having fun on the new equipment, which shows that we are getting the design of the play areas right."
"It should be a right and not a luxury that children have access to Unit 6,
Banters Lane Trading Estate,
Great Leighs,
Essex,
CM3 1QX, good quality play area," she added.
Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson recently released a report in which he said that children must start being more active.
He said that the fitness levels of British children were falling by nine per cent each decade.
