ePetition - Building a playground in Central Hove

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Building a playground in Central Hove

We the undersigned petition Brighton & Hove Council to build a playground in Central Hove (West Hove Infant School - Connaught Site area).

Hundreds of young children spend time in Central Hove every day. They live in the neighbourhood, attend local nurseries and also two primary schools - West Hove Infant School Connaught Site and St. Andrew's C.E. Primary School.
Yet, there is no public playground within the walking distance.
We look forward to working together to make our neighbourhood a safe place to play.


The petition will be submitted to the meeting of Full Council on 27 March 2014

This ePetition ran from 22/01/2014 to 27/03/2014 and has now finished.

42 people signed this ePetition.

Council response

Response provided by the Chair of the Environment, Transport & Sustainability Committee at the meeting held on 29 April 2014:

"Thank you for your petition regarding the request for a playground in central Hove.
Playgrounds are important facilities for children to socialise play and learn and are important for their development and health.
We are lucky that in Brighton & Hove we have 50 playgrounds across the city and we have recently completed a program of improvements to 26 of these over the last four years, mainly using external funding. These play areas have an improved range of equipment to suit all abilities and ages and have, where possible, included much improved landscaping and other opportunities for informal play.
Officers have looked at the provision of playgrounds around central Hove and the closest sites are: Hove Park, Stoneham Park, Aldrington Recreation Ground and St Anns Well Gardens. These sites are between a 10 and 25 minute walk from West Hove Infant School. All these playgrounds have been improved over recent years and I am aware of how popular they are.
Unfortunately we are not in a position to build new playgrounds. At a time of significant budget cuts we do not have the capital resources to design and build new sites and our revenue budgets to maintain the sites we currently have are also under increasing pressure"

 


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