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20/01/2011
VictoriaEmbankment Play Area Phase 2 works nearing completion:
Victoria Embankment Playground is continuing to grow as the second step of development nears completion.
Children and Young People will have already benefited from phase 1 of the play area improvements and will soon be able to enjoy the second phase of enhancements and additions.
The first phase of the project was funded by Nottingham City Council and The Department of Children, Schools and Families through the Pathfinder Play Programme. Groundwork Greater Nottingham has designed and managed the project and the development is continuing with this and a final phase of works.
Phase 2 of the Victoria Embankment Play Area project is nearly complete. Groundwork Greater Nottingham successfully obtained £70,000 worth of funding through WREN Landfill Communities Fund and M&S Greener Living Spaces Fund to improve the play facility by installing a range of inclusive play equipment for a wide age range of users including; a bespoke wheelchair accessible suspension bridge, an inclusive sand play unit and sand diggers, a basket swing and agility sky carver unit (a flying skate board!). The project also includes an additional seating area and circulatory routes, sensory planting providing year round interest and colour, tree and bulb planting and the creation of a wildlife meadow with interactive interpretation posts.
Work started in November with the planting of hundreds of daffodil, crocus and snowdrop bulbs by children from the three local Primary Schools; Welbeck, Greenfields and Riverside. A community planting day also took place in January with the Friends of Victoria Embankment.
Cllr David Mellen, Portfolio Holder for Children’s Services at Nottingham City Council, stated at the launch for phase 1, “The opening of the play area was the first step to providing a fantastic new space for children to play. With the help of Groundwork Greater Nottingham and external funding sources we are able to build on this and develop the area so the whole community can benefit.”
Joanne Phelan, Principal Landscape Architect for Groundwork Greater Nottingham, said: “I’m really pleased that the aspirations of the local community are being realised and that the developing new play area is providing an inclusive facility for all to enjoy.”
£105,500 was invested in Phase 1 of the play area development which has seen the removal of some old dated pieces of equipment. New play equipment which has been installed include an accessible roundabout (suitable for wheelchair users), a cable way, metro whirl (spinning net bowl is the best way to describe it) and a large rockstakz climbing piece. Some natural features such as logs and boulders have also been installed.
