Play Builder

Play Builder is a £1.1M grant from DCSF

Download a summary of play builder year1.

(Screen quality pdf for hard copies please contact us .)

The grant was awarded to Somerset County Council in April 2008 for new or significantly refurbished play spaces in Somerset between April 2008 and March 2011.

The programme asks Somerset to develop new or existing public, open access play spaces across the County that are:

Innovative and adventurous

Inclusive

Attractive for girls

Aimed at 8 to 13 year olds

In Somerset the County and District Councils have been working together to identify play sapces, using the district play strategies and the play audits within them that were written to draw down Big Lottery funding in 2008. Children's Charity Barnardo's have been given the role of facilitating the programme on behalf of the County Council.

Year 3

Year 3 and the final year of this programme is now running. Due to the change in government we're aiming to complete sites by December 31 2010 to give us a 3 month contingency if anything goes wrong.

Sites being developed are:

Taunton Deane: Greenway Rec and Taunton Green

West Somerset: Barnes Close, Dulverton

Mendip: Hillmead Shepton Mallet, Stratton on Fosse

South Somerset: Wincanton, Happy Valley Crewkerne, Furzehill Chard

Sedgemoor: North Petherton, Chambert Ave Bridgwater

Year 2 sites

Year 2 is now complete.

In Taunton Deane - Oake Village, Lyngford Park, Hamilton Gault
In South Somerset - Yew Tree Park Yeovil, Jocelyn Park, Yeovil Vision Flagship Playspace, Merriot
In Mendip - Goss Drive Street, (Barringotn in Shepton did not go ahead, instead funds have been moved to Hillmead Shepton and the project will be completed in year 3).
In West Somerset - Crowcombe
In Sedgemoor - East Huntspill

YEAR 1 sites:

The following sites from year 1 funding are now open:

In Mendip - Windmill Hill, Glastonbury and Glastonbury Skate Park
In Sedgemoor - Ilex, West Huntspill
In South Somerset - Bondfield Way, Chard and Nine Springs in Yeovil
In Taunton Deane - Higher Holway, Taunton and Howard Road, Wellington
In West Somerset - Belle Vue in Washford