Story & photos: Lisa Swift
Burngreave residents feel they have been badly let down after projects to improve local green spaces have failed to make the grade.
Denholme Close playground and Burngreave Recreation Ground, were both due to be finished in April of this year, but residents near both projects say they were not finished properly.
The Council commissioned the projects with a range of funding it pulled together, including Play Builder and Viridor money. The Council has to bring in contractors to work on projects like this.
The Denholme project has been a real disappointment to local parents. Back in 2009 the Parents group PITS campaigned for the playground to be renovated and helped clean up the park to show the Council how important it was to local people. Two years on, PITS member, Donna Divers said it was a mess:
“It’s not finished. It’s a real shame because the kids love it. When we got involved in helping design the playground we were expecting a lot more. It’s not safe really, the surfaces are stuck up and uneven, we’ve had a few accidents already. And the Zip swing has broken a few times and had to be fixed.”
The soft surfaces of the original playground are full of holes or are badly patched, while the new equipment is installed above a patch work of surfaces that stick up at all angles.
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