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Five New Timberplay sites enhance Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham.

Natural play comes to Hammersmith and Fulham

23/3/2010

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham will soon be alive with the delighted screams of children as they enjoy the wealth of new play opportunities provided by five Timberplay playgrounds.

Timberplay have been awarded the contract to design and install the new play spaces after going through a rigorous tendering procedure. Initially they had to complete an ESPO Design Competition and then satisfy a number of criteria, including ‘Quality of the Design´, ‘Value for Money´ and ‘How the submitted design responded to the Site´.

Frances Basham, Play Development Officer for the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham comments on this project:-
“The consultation process for this project included canvassing the opinions of the Borough´s children who were asked to make models of the kind of equipment they wanted to see in the playground. Climbing structures were extremely popular, and a number of the models actually looked like products from the Timberplay Brochure.”
As a result four out of the five sites have bespoke climbing equipment as their centre pieces that include a Timberwood Tangle, a large Climbing Forest and Climbing Structures.

During 1988, one of the five Hammersmith & Fulham playgrounds, White City, was stocked with equipment from Timberplay´s German Supplier Partner, Richter Spielgeräte. Despite being developed over twenty years ago this playground still holds a great deal of play value, consequently Timberplay have been able to preserve this site, enhancing it with key pieces and ensuring the existing play equipment still performs for generations to come.

This project, which in total has cost around £300,000, has been funded by the Playbuilder program, developed by the Department for Children, Schools and Families to promote better play provision across the UK.

To find out more call on 0114 282 3474.