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Playing Field
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PLAYING FIELD COMMITTEE – UPDATE
ON DEVELOPMENTS
We are very pleased to announce that a
grant of £7,400 has been obtained from
Awards For All. Together with a
contribution of £1,100 from the Parish
Council, this will be used to buy new
play equipment, mainly for school age
children, to be installed below the
existing children’s playground area.
Hopefully the new equipment will be in
situ in August. The equipment is made by
Playdale, which supplied the apparatus
currently used by the younger children.
For every successful grant application
there are usually at least 2
unsuccessful ones, so it does take time
for the Committee to make major things
happen. Our objective remains to deliver
to the community as many of the targets
in the 2008 Parish Plan as we can.
Recapping on progress to date. In late
2009 the power cables were buried
underground making the recreational
space safer for all to use and, since
then, the hedge dividing the 2 fields
was removed and a new wooden fence has
now been erected in its place. The cost
of all this work was fully funded by
grant monies raised by Week St Mary
Football Club as the Playing Field
Committee (being part of a statutory
body) cannot apply to certain grant
providers. Last summer, the rubber
covering on the children’s playground
was removed and replaced by bark
chippings. This was partly funded by the
£250 prize for winning the 2009 Calor
Cornwall Village of the Year competition
with the remainder of £750 coming from
the Parish Council’s recreational
budget. Also, the Parish Council paid
50% towards the cost of youth
shelters/”dug-outs” sited on the field
by the football pitch
All costs for the construction of the
new football pitch and the refurbishment
of a cabin for use as changing rooms are
being met entirely by the football club.
The Playing Field Committee’s plans for
future possible developments include:
• Re-instating the dividing hedge on the
bank behind the new wooden fence with
beech and box;
• Removing much of the existing wooden
fencing around the tennis court which is
becoming increasingly dilapidated;
• Longer term, converting the tennis
court into a multi-use games area
(5-a-side football, basketball, netball,
bowls area) at a cost of £30,000 to
£50,000;
• Once the existing football pitch is
vacated, making the top field more youth
oriented, including a small sized
football pitch;
• Extending the pathways around the site
(cost £20,000+) ; and
• Establishing an environmental area,
with seating, in the north-eastern
corner of the site, below the new
football pitch.
The Committee meets monthly and its
members carry out regular Health &
Safety checks on the playing fields and
equipment on a rota basis. We do need
more committee members, particularly
parents who have children using the
facilities so that one of the main user
groups is better represented. Please
contact Micheline Smith (341689) if you
are interested or if you have any ideas
to put forward about development of the
playing fields.
Week St Mary Playing Field
Committee, June 2011 |
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