Great Sankey Parish Council invests £50k in children’s playgrounds Great Sankey

Great Sankey Parish Council invests £50k in children’s playgrounds

The Parish Council is set to invest a total of approximately £50k in upgrading the children’s playground area that they have responsibility for at Tim Parry Recreational Ground and providing new play facilities at Vicarage Community Park.

Approximately £40k will be invested on the play area at Tim Parry Recreational Ground to upgrade the existing children’s playground area. This will include installation of new equipment including a see saw, whirlwind rotator, climbing adventure slide, bucket springer and new junior adventure trail. Repairs to the wet pour will also be carried out.

The remaining £10k will be invested at Vicarage Community Park to allow completion of phase two of the overall project for this site. The works will include installation of a timber adventure trail which will boarder the new tarmac path, providing an element of play provision to the park for local families.

Phase one of Vicarage Community Park project was completed in 2020 and was a £160k joint venture with Warrington Borough Council. This included an installation of a drainage system, which successfully addressed the regular flooding of the site. New railings and ornate entrance, new path to access the park, seating, and landscaping were also provided in this phase.

Councillor Dan Price, Vice Chair of Great Sankey Parish Council said

“Great Sankey Parish Council is committed to creating exciting, healthy outdoor spaces for all the community to enjoy.

Phase one to Vicarage Community Park has seen an overwhelming transformation of an underused frequently flooded field into a landscaped green space that the local community are now using to exercise, meet with friends and enjoy the planting.

The timber framed adventure trail with grass matting will provide children a fun place to play and has been designed to fit in with the landscaping of the park, whilst offering a different play experience to the urbanised play area at Tim Parry Recreation Ground”

Work to the children’s playgrounds should be completed by summer.

 

Tim Parry Recreation Ground

Vicarage Community Park

Vicarage Community Park