Bristol parks get makeover

Children will have more play options open to them as Bristol City Council have just finished giving city play parks a make over.

Gores Marsh has had £141,000 of landscaping and new play facilities, Hillfields has had £85,000 worth of improvements to play equipment Withywood has received £70,000 of landscaping and a new slide feature and Willmott has had £35,000 worth of new play kit and a wooden climbing wall.

The makeovers come from the ‘Play Pathfinder’ funding, the result of a successful £2.65 million bid in 2008 to the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Bristol will have more than twenty local parks and play spaces improved under this scheme.

Bristol’s cabinet member for environment and community safety, Councillor Gary Hopkins said: “The new play parks are excellent. They offer children inclusive play opportunities that not only excite, challenge, stimulate and stretch their imaginations but which also support our drive to get more children physically active and using their local community parks more often.”