Foreland Road Play Area

Foreland Road, Turlin Moor, Poole

Young people's consultation to date

5th June	Turlin Moor Combined School Meeting with Head Teacher; process agreed - includes Questionnaire and possible focus groups
5th June	Visit to the play area, promoted in school earlier in the day 25 young people aged 8-12 consulted [findings]
9th June	Turlin Moor Youth Centre, Year 7 group 14 young people aged 11-13 yrs consulted [findings]
16th June	Turlin Moor Combined School Youth Council meeting - process agreed
23rd June	Assembly with all pupils
29th June	Collect Questionnaires from the school [report]
30th June	Meeting with Hamworthy 1st Division Brownies
8th July	Meeting with 2nd Division Hamworthy Guides
14th July	Turlin Moor Combined School Youth Council meeting
10th August	No comments/requests received from local residents since door-to-door leaflet distribution in July
11th Aug	Revisited play area to share information and progress

Findings from the play area visit Friday 5th June 2009, 3:30pm – 5:30pm 11 boys aged 8-12 yrs, 14 girls aged 8-11 yrs Several of those who came to the park did so as a result of an announcement during school (Turlin Moor Community School) and several expressed an interest in joining a school focus group to develop the ideas generated by the initial consultation. Foreland Road is the play area the majority of them visited most, followed by the play area at Turlin Moor Pavilion; both are in close proximity to their homes and school. Several parks from round the country were named as favourite parks (one in Manchester, Wales, Windsor and another in Shaftesbury were mentioned). Locally Hamworthy Park, Dawkins Rd (also known as Samson’s Park), Foreland Road, Poultons and Upton Park were named. The young people feel that the play space should keep the swings and the equipment for younger ones (several take younger siblings there). Opinion was split as to whether the yellow spinning cup, purple and green challenge trail and frog should be kept. Most felt what is there already is OK but gets boring after about 5 minutes because it's not designed for them – they want to see new things that aren't in other parks. Concern was expressed about older teenagers ruining it and graffiti. Requests for change include (numbers indicate when mentioned more than once): A tyre swing (2) A gate the other side is definitely needed Roundabout (5) Buddy swing (7) Zip wire (8) Taller apparatus Slides (various suggestions) Tunnels (2) Monkey bars (3) Gym equipment for all to use (4) More seating / funky benches / shelters 930 Mix of wood and metal Bike jumps (4) – comment made about these needing to be far enough away from play equipment Motorbike area Free running equipment Bouncing, swinging, turning seesaw Big climbing frame (4) Climbing wall Electric swing Trampoline Swings that a lot of people can use In relation to incorporating playthings on to the mound concern was expressed that parents might worry more as i is hidden from site, so perhaps the field would be a better location. Although one large slide from the top of the mound to the bottom was a popular suggestion. Youth Centre consultation A session was also run at the Yr 7 night at Turlin Moor Youth Centre on Tuesday 9^th June. Comments were received about Foreland Road, Turlin Moor Pavilion and Dawkins Road Play Area. 9 females and 5 males aged 11-13 yrs participated. Favourite parks included: Poultons Park Poole Park (big with loads to do) Foreland Road (lots of stuff for younger ones so can take little brothers and sisters) Dawkins Road Parks visited the most were Foreland Road, Turlin Moor Pavilion, Dawkins Road and Hamworthy Park. Suggestions for Foreland Road: Tyre Swing (make better with wooden bits and chains) Graffiti wall so teenagers can paint Fix spinning yellow chair Add swings Zip wire Gym area Big climbing like at Monkey world Slide down bank
Turlin Moor Combined School consultation covering Turlin Moor Pavilion, Foreland Road & Dawkins Road play areas This report outlines the findings from the questionnaires completed by pupils from Turlin Moor Community School and draws conclusions from across the consultations about the main changes young people would like to see to each park. Participants who completed the questionnaire: From the school 46 questionnaires were completed. 19 by males and 27 by females. The ages were spread from 7-12 yrs with the majority being aged 9-11. All of those who completed the questionnaire live in the BH16 postcode. “The field” next to Pavilion Park was mentioned most frequently as their favourite place to play and Foreland Road Park was mentioned by over a quarter of respondents as the park they visited most. The preference for activities was as follows: Climbing Competition & Spinning Hanging out & Swinging Balancing Jumping / Sliding Rocking About Foreland Road play area particularly: 42 pupils commented on how they would like to see Foreland Road Park improved. Things pupils would like to keep in the park: “It is for little children, just keep it like it is” (F, aged 11) F = female M = male 30 participants mentioned the swings; the other pieces of equipment were mentioned to keep in the following order (numbers indicated in brackets): Swings (30) Spinning cup (22) Obstacle Course (14) Climbing Frame (11) Monkey Bars (9) Slide (4) Changes to the park: “I want you to change all of it and make it better because it’s got nasty writing and little kids read it and keep saying it” (F, aged 11) The climbing frame was the piece of equipment that most young people want to see changes made to: The climbing frame (15) Monkey Bars (5) Obstacle Course (5) Slide (5) Graffiti (4) Tarmac (4) Spinning Cup (4) Additions to the park: The most frequent comment given about additions was non-specific but a request for the park to be made bigger and more equipment added. After this the following additions were requested: Bin (3) Taller Slide (3) Zip wire (3) Roundabout (2) Sandpit (1) Although there were not loads of suggestions many of the pictures drawn included big slides and zip wires.

Youth Centre consultation