New tree house arrives at popular Midlands park

YOUNGSTERS visiting a popular children’s play park in Kingsbury are set to have a ‘tree-mendous’ time thanks to a £50,000 cash injection from the council.

Pint-sized adventurers will be able to ‘branch out’ with their playtime as a new tree house arrives at the newly-refurbished play space, known as Far Leys Play Area, next to Mitchell’s Pool at Kingsbury Water Park.

The explorers’ space will be launched on Friday, April 13, and there are 100 free goody bags to give away to the first 100 children to arrive on the day.

Warwickshire County Council Country Parks invested £50,000 capital funding into the new equipment for this play space, after taking on board customers’ views about various themes and maintaining the use of wooden play equipment.

A spokesperson for the council said: “Wicksteed Play has built a great new adventure play space which provides a range of equipment for children from three to 12 years, including sensory and imaginative play elements.

“There are now two very different play areas to enjoy at Kingsbury!

“So if you are looking for something new over Easter, then come along to Kingsbury Water Park and explore this new adventure play park!”

The six-hectare wetland has been transformed from disused waterlogged football pitches and restored to its original function as the floodplain of the River Tame. It now consists of new water channels, scrapes, ditches and reedbed, helping to restore floodplain connectivity.

A sand martin bank has also been constructed in order to provide a vital safe nesting site for this species of bird and can be viewed safely from the viewing platform.

This project is part of the Tame Valley Wetlands – a landscape partnership scheme supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, aiming to create a wetland landscape, rich in wildlife and accessible to all.