Summer completion date for outdoor children’s play park
A new outdoor children’s play park in Seaburn is on track to be completed this summer, council development chiefs have confirmed.
Sunderland City Council’s Planning and Highways Committee granted planning permission for the new play park in February, and work started on site in March.
The project forms part of a significant investment into the area and aims to transform the leisure offer for local residents while creating an active destination for visitors of all ages.
The park is planned at a site behind the Seaburn
Inn and Prego and its design utilises high-quality materials and vibrant colours with the aim of supporting children’s physical, social and cognitive development.
Play equipment will be sited within landscape features such as play mounds, sand pits, and planted areas, as well as traditional play features such as swings, slides, and roundabouts.
The park will also feature bespoke pieces of equipment such as tall towers, climbing walls, and bridges, to create a visually stimulating and exciting space.
Sunderland City Council worked closely with children from Seaburn Dene Primary School who have actively participated in the design process for the play park.
At a meeting of the council’s Economic Prosperity Scrutiny
Committee,councillors received an update on the work of the council’s regeneration and development company Siglion.
This included a presentation with a CGI image showing how the completed park would look.
Neil Guthrie, city council development director, said the project was on track to be completed this summer and that the vision was to make the park a “real destination”.
He told the meeting: “That was designed in partnership with local school children so we have done a lot of work with local schools to come up with a design proposal.
“That’s built around
Cut Throat Dene and that area on the west side of the Seaburn regeneration area, we expect that to be complete sometime during the summer this year.
“We see that as being a real destination, as well being a facility for the community.”