Playground to undergo £200k redevelopment (From Watford Observer)
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Playground to undergo £200k redevelopment
10:56am Monday 23rd February 2009 in
Cassiobury Park's playground will undergo a £200,000 facelift to allow children to climb, slide and spin in safety for years to come.
The new playground will include a range of play equipment for toddlers and juniors, as well as safety surfacing, footpaths, fencing, litter bins, seats and a grassed area.
The playground will also be Disability Discrimination Act accessible, with play features that all children can enjoy, including special swing seats, a sand pit and dish roundabout.
Watford Borough Council has appointed Sutcliffe Play Ltd to carry out the work, which it is hoped will be completed by the end of June, in time for the summer months.
Mayor Dorothy Thornhill said: “Residents have told me that facilities for children are really important to them, so a programme of works is ongoing to improve our playgrounds and play areas so they meet the needs of local children and young people.”
The proposal comes after playgrounds at King George V, Watford Fields and in Cassiobury Park, near the tea pavilion, were all redeveloped in the last year or so.
Comments(8)
Paradise Watford
says...
11:11am Mon 23 Feb 09
Sounds like a lot of money but I think its a wonderful thing that the children in Watford are being given facilities to enjoy the outdoors. Nothing like being in a park on a lovely summers day
Roy Storkdill
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12:34pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Young uns today, they don't know they're born, I say they don't know they're born.
Bring back National Service/the birch/rationing/rick
ets etc.
jesus loves you
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1:08pm Mon 23 Feb 09
It's a nice idea but they need to maintain it and thats what Watford council can't do.
Andrew1963
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1:37pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Roy Stockdill
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6:40pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Does the government's current madwoman, Harriet Harperson, know about this? She has just floated the extraordinary idea that bus services should be withdrawn from middle class areas and made to run through poorer suburbs where people are less likely to have cars. I can't see her approving of £200K's worth of work and equipment being spent to provide facilities for the offspring of the better-off. It's just not socialism as we know it, old boy!
watfordsfinest
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9:40pm Mon 23 Feb 09
Paradise Watford
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8:51am Tue 24 Feb 09
Personally I think that park is one of the towns best assets and underused as it is so hopefully this will encourage more to benefit from it
The Rover
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12:29pm Wed 25 Feb 09
Roy Stockdill wrote:Roy,
Hang on, isn't Cassiobury Park in a very middle class and expensive area and therefore the kids who are most likely to use these facilities will be from well-off families? Does the government's current madwoman, Harriet Harperson, know about this? She has just floated the extraordinary idea that bus services should be withdrawn from middle class areas and made to run through poorer suburbs where people are less likely to have cars. I can't see her approving of £200K's worth of work and equipment being spent to provide facilities for the offspring of the better-off. It's just not socialism as we know it, old boy!
Cassiobury Park is not a park exclusively for the families who live on the Cassiobury Estate, and no membership is needed. I use cassiobury park on a regular basis and live nowhere near the park.
That said, it amazes me that Watford Council are spending £200k on a park which is fine as it is, on top of the money they have wasted at Bushey Arches.
Given that we are in a recession and hundreds of local people are losing there jobs this is like a kick in the face to tax payers. Why not reduce council tax bills instead?
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