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Play Areas in Gloucester

Meeting: 11/03/2020 - Cabinet (Item 117)

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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment updating Members on the increase in number and quality of play areas across the city.

 

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Decision:

RESOLVED that the increase in number and quality of play areas across the city be noted.

 

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Environment that updated Members on the increase in number and quality of play areas across the city.

 

The Cabinet Member for Environment advised Members that in 2006 there were only 36 play areas across the city in contrast to the 80 existing and in development today.  He stated that he was enthused by this achievement despite a background of austerity and the benefits it gave to families and children.  The Cabinet Member for Culture and Leisure commented that the report demonstrated how much can be achieved in difficult times and thanked officers for their hard work.  The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods drew Members’ attention to the transformation revealed by the photographs in the appendix to the report and stressed the importance of the contribution of play areas to improving health and addressing inequality.  She expressed her own aspiration that Gloucester Park be transformed in the future acquires a flagship play area.  The Cabinet Member for Environment reminded Members that much of the £2 million invested over the past decade had come from developers and Section 106 contributions extracted by the City Planners.

 

RESOLVED that the increase in number and quality of play areas across the city be noted.