Councillors waste our money again grr...

[sleepy bunny]

...on a badly designed childrens playground.

We spent some time on Sunday at the new unfenced childrens play area at Peckham Rye One o'clock club.

The children loved it, unfortunately the stream feature had overflowed creating a muddy wallow. This was due to essentially bad design- a low bridge which created a dam when it quickly became clogged with debris underneath, combined with inadequate hard landscaping along the banks.

We walked past the play area on Monday and to my huge annoyance man with hat was examining the mud slick and then commenced to barricade it.

Is this worth complaining about? Yes! Were no lessons learned from the redesign of Goose Green playground, which quickly turned into a Glastonbury type mudfest (loved by children, feared by parents)?

Councillors! Recreational space planners/designers! There is no excuse, this is a complete waste of our money to now have to fix this, as you had to do with Goose Green.

Local councillors I would be very interested to hear from you on this.

[Moos]

Hi sleepy bunny, have you seen the existing thread on this?

Existing thread

[sleepy bunny]

I just saw it after I had posted Moo, I have slightly older children so the fencing is not as much of an issue, although I sympathise completely with parents for who this is an issue. Also agree with one forumer's comments about the mushrooms- what are they? No child can play on them?!