Planning permission and play structures

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Adventure playgrounds: the essential elements

Publications Category: Adventure play

 

Triangle Adventure Playground vs Lambeth Council

Adventure playground structures are classed as ‘permitted development’ in planning terms – yet a growing number of organisations are finding themselves challenged by local councils to apply for planning permission when upgrading or replacing them. This case study tells the story of one adventure playground which faced down such a challenge, in the hope of equipping other similar organisations with the knowledge and confidence to do the same.

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State of Play
More than a year on from the start of the pandemic, parents say the loss of their kid’s freedom to play with friends and wider family is taking its toll, with two thirds (66%) voicing concern about the long term impact this will have on their child’s wellbeing in GOSH's poll of 2543 parents of
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Understanding and responding to  young Londoners’ changing needs

May 2020: Youth & Policy

This report takes an in-depth look at the needs of young people in five London boroughs – Barking & Dagenham, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey and Waltham Forest – and considers how young people’s needs have changed, and are continuing to change, in these areas. Young people taking part rated the need for services such as adventure playgrounds and youth clubs as particularly acute.

Click here for the full article in Youth and Policy.

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An updated briefing drawing on the work of expert play theorists and practitioners

May 2017:  Play England

This updated briefing draws on the work of an expert group of play theorists and practising playworkers convened by Play England to identify the unique characteristics of the adventure playground model of play provision. It incorporates learning from adventure play support programmes delivered by Play England since 2006 and reflects thinking from an online debate initiated by London Play in 2012.

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Children and young people
Temporary street closures for play make sense for public health
This evaluation of the Street Play Project delivered by London Play, Playing Out and Play England includes persuasive arguments for the public health benefits of play streets.
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