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Natural play 'How to' guides
London Play has developed a number of 'How to' guides aimed at designers, developers and managers of parks and public open space, showing how to incorporate natural landscape features to make public space into playable space.
Use them in conjunction with our guidance on allowing risk in play and how to conduct a risk/benefit assessment on public space natural play environments: link
These guides have been developed with part-funding from ICAP a commercial sponsor, and from Natural England's Access to Nature programme, which in turn is sponsored by the National Lottery.
Please make use of them, and let us know what other subjects could be covered in our "How to do it" guides.
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