Children at play / Department of the Environment.

  • Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Date:
1973
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Children at play / Department of the Environment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    $2 ‘ Types of play equipment, by estate Estate Moving Static Static Ball- z ea Lowrise equip- specialist architec- games ee M = Medium rise ment tural area as Mx = Mixed rise St Mary’s (M) + ae aly a Winstanley Rd (Mx) + aL = ae. Canada (Mx) + a ak is Acorn Place (Mx) - ai = aL Park Hill (Mx) — Je =f is Warwick (Mx) = at aie =i Curnock St (M) + ale ae me 84 WINSTANLEY ROAD One of the play areas here was built over parking space Edith Ave (M) — — Se ae The Bonamy (M) — ae hg ms Woodway Lane (L) = = as yt Sceaux Gardens (Mx) _ ae Ete = Woodhouse (L) — = = pele Fleury Rd (L) — = = BS Royal College St (M) = = = = Gloucester St (L) _- | = ue - 85 CANADA Play area immediately adjacent to the estate 86 Percentage of children seen in play areas on each estate Estate % No. Park Hill \ PEEPS * Svory's TT 16° Curnock 15 EERE CEE EA 2,846 Canada 13 SEE, | 3,780 Acorn . Se Sere 3,732 a small park with a ball-games area and a play area equipped with conventional play equipment. We included this in our obser- Winstanley Saar rey vations as it was not cut off from the estate by any roads and | :; The 8onamy So 3,163 was used by the children as part of the estate (Figure 85). Woodway 5 Cte aS ald Seals: 94. At Park Hill and St Mary’s the play areas attracted almost a fifth of the observed children (Figure 86). On five estates only a Sceaux | Brey 1,732 twelfth were seen in play areas, and on the remaining estates the play areas were even less popular. The adventure playground at Edith 3] zz 4,861 Warwick, which attracted 12°% of the children, was no more popular than the play areas at Canada, Curnock Street and Acorn Warwick a 4,773 Place, and less popular than those at Park Hill and St Mary’s.