Community Green Spaces

Wealden Play Strategy Workshop: Rethinking Community Green Spaces

The Cultural Services team organised this event for Parish and Town Councils in September 2007 to raise awareness of the latest best practice for play sites, parks and recreational green spaces. Read on for more information about the presentations that took place on the day.

Wealden Play Day Presentation (pdf 933 kb)

An introduction to parks, green spaces and play areas in the Wealden district.

KC Play provision presentation (pdf 6.42MB)

Details on how the quality and value of play sites were measured in Wealden’s audit of play and open space provision.

Risk in Play ppt (pdf 459KB)

Find out how and why attitudes to risk taking in children’s play are changing.

Natural Play (pdf 767kb)

Examples of new approaches to providing play equipment, including natural landscaping as well as traditional fixed play equipment.

Procurement (pdf 42.8kb)

Potential ways to work together to make it easier or cheaper to purchase equipment for play sites and green spaces.