Morley Borough Independent Councillors have lined up a third playground to be refurbished following our successful campaigns to find the money to improve playgrounds at Churwell Park and Magpie Lane. The third playground, at Dartmouth Park, is to become part of the improvement plan and we are to meet Parks Officers at Leeds City Council to agree a delivery programme.
We have identified the money needed to improve the playground in Dartmouth Park. The children’s play area is now looking rather dated and we want to bring it up to date. We will be consulting widely with local residents – especially children and young people – to make sure we come up with a design that they want.
The finance for the scheme is to come from a developer contribution which is a legal obligation developers have to pay to improve local parks if they are building new homes in the area. The contribution for the improvement plan is coming from the Barratts development on Bruntcliffe Road.
It is an exciting time for playgrounds across the wider Morley area. Both Churwell Park and Magpie Lane playground improvement plans have gone out to consultation with the aim of delivering the improvements by the end of the year. It is the community that is driving forward with new ideas for our playgrounds and we are keen to adopt their proposals.
The Dartmouth Park Playground plan should go out to consultation over the next six weeks and we are hoping to see the work completed by Spring 2016.
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