Children's Playgrounds
A children's playground properly designed can satisfy many criteria. The designers need to exploit and maximise its effect in every way possible. Each location and set of circumstances is different. The available space, which may have difficult contours, needs to be used effectively and safely, and bespoke play equipment will give the best use of space.
Choose from the playgrounds below to view...
 Hatfield House |
 National Trust Croft Castle |
 RSPB Newport |
 School Playgrounds |
I remember a visit to Battersea children's Funfair at the age of 5. My father plonked me into a coin slot flying saucer and started it off. I quickly became hysterical, and was promptly rescued and set on the ground in floods of tears. What was the problem? I didn't have a clue how to fly the damned thing and I knew it could only end in disaster.
That's what children see in realistic theme play equipment – and you can make adults see it too – if you can just stir the imagination with an atmospheric construction that astonishes children and adults alike.
A well designed theme, sympathetic to the location, often with a themed centrepiece, (for example; a pirate ship, castle or a miniature stately home) will give a wonderful first impression for all ages. There needs to be something for everybody, usually with an age range of 3-15 years, and there needs to be plenty of opportunity for exploring and running around.
If a children's play area is unique and exciting, it will become memorable for all ages and will lead to multiple return visits, particularly by families, enhancing visitor numbers, the use of facilities and therefore revenues. It needs to be a credit to the attraction or stately home – and by this means word will spread, "have you seen that wonderful play area at Hatfield House?" – with more leisure time and rising numbers of visitors of all ages, attractions throughout the UK – and the world – are competing to attract more visitors – particularly the young.