Peckham Rye Playground - sand, equipment, repairs etc

[TreacleRabbit]

I contacted the Parks section on the council about the sand pit, because the sand level is too low for the equipment eg the wooden structure (it?s very hard for little kids to climb up onto the bottom rung, hard to use the metal diggers etc).They say that more sand is due this month.

Just posting for info.

[Renata Hamvas]

Hi TreacleRabbit,

thanks very much for contacting Parks and posting about this. I'm guessing with the good weather and the playground having been so busy over the summer, the sand has been gradually removed in tiny amounts on children's shoes and dissipated by wind. Please let me know if sand doesn't appear in the next couple of weeks and I will get on to them.

Renata

[Ginster]

Renata - is it also possible to look at one of the little pools? The "plug" cannot be reached without getting wet when the pool is full - so at one point in the summer no one had done this and the pool was therefore full of green water! It did not look safe for kids. I noticed the other pool has the plug near the edge so it's easy to pull out. Unfortunate design fault on the other one!