would you let your kids play here ?

[Flyboy]

I wonder if this is really the whole story. So far we have only seen photographs from one angle. I'll bet that there is a proper park behind the photographer, or even a climbing frame of some description.

Originally Posted by Flyboy

I wonder if this is really the whole story. So far we have only seen photographs from one angle. I'll bet that there is a proper park behind the photographer, or even a climbing frame of some description.

no there isn't that's it every thing is concrete blocks

BBC

Mrs Gray added that there were traditional play parks nearby. At the request of the community, swings and slides had previously been removed from the site due to repeated vandalism.

The council has said that the design was in line with national guidelines set by Play England.

The park is one of 28 sites being developed in Sunderland as part of a £4.2m investment. Each facility has been uniquely designed.

[Dai]

And some councillor's brother-in-law who's copped a nice little earner as a consultant.. That's where the money goes.

That monstrosity could have been put up by a few parents in a few hours for a hell of a lot less then the council paid for it and having asked a few people that have looked at that photo none of them would allow their kids near the place. To think they removed all the slides and roundabouts in the park over the road that kids used to love because they were not upto so called safety standards and yet that thing can be built. We really are upside down in this country where too often idiots manage to get into positions of power and able to make decisions that should never get made.

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by martyh

no there isn't that's it every thing is concrete blocks

Really?

http://www.anorak.co.uk/247411/media...aedo-park.html

Apart from the rather macabre headstones, there is a perfectly functional climbing frame and sandpit.

Originally Posted by Flyboy

Really?

http://www.anorak.co.uk/247411/media...aedo-park.html

Apart from the rather macabre headstones, there is a perfectly functional climbing frame and sandpit.

are you drunk?

thats not diamond hall pocket park that is just a random picture of a park

you realy should look at things first ...oh and nice site by the way

this is what the site looked like before the council spent £70,000 on it ...a big improvement?




there's a better view for you Flyboy

[Flyboy]

Originally Posted by martyh

are you drunk?

thats not diamond hall pocket park that is just a random picture of a park

you realy should look at things first ...oh and nice site by the way

Well, they were pictures included in an article about Diamond Hall Pocket Park, the title certainly suggests that they are pictures of the park. Never having been to Sunderland, what else was I supposed to deduce.

if you scroll through the pictures i think it becomes obvious ...with all the headstones and such

i'm still trying to work out what headstones are doing in a park ,maybe sunderland council designed it

[Gary L]

I expect the camera's are for getting the ambulances their sooner for the broken shins and skulls.

somebody clearly hates kids.

[the_neurotic_cat]

I wonder if the council could be put on that list of people that are a danger to children hmm

[Stuart]

Originally Posted by foreverwar

BBC

The same guidelines that mean my local council has spent a small fortune putting safety mats everywhere a child might fall in the playground? Not that I am complaining about the mats, but placing multiple random concrete blocks in various positions and calling it a feature of a play park hardly matches up with the idea of safety.

After all, how are kids gonna play on them? Climb on them, jump around, leap off. Inevitably, some are going to fall (several feet in some cases) and what are they going to hit? Probably more concrete.

Of course, it could just be that the builder laid the concrete then buggered off before it was finished. You know the sort of thing. "Oh, sorry, the swings are coming from Leytonstone. They'll be in next Tuesday, so I'll come and fit 'em then.", but next Tuesday never arrives.

And so it begins...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8673916.stm

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by Tuftus

And so it begins...

It had to happen. and as long as they leave them there, there's going to be a lot more blood spilt.

He said health and safety officers had been out to the site in response to public concerns and had reported that all guidelines were being followed.

Pathetic.