Turlin Moor Pavilion Play Area

Turlin Road, Turlin Moor, Poole

Young people's consultation, 2009

5th June	Turlin Moor Combined School Meeting with Head Teacher; process agreed - includes Questionnaire and possible focus groups
8th June	Visit to the play area, promoted in school 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	Collected 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
Follow-up:
11th Aug	Revisited play area to share information and progress
Findings from the play area visit Monday 8th June 2009, 3:30pm – 5:30pm 6 boys aged 7-14yrs, 15 girls aged 7-15yrs Several parks were mentioned as favourites including: Hamworthy Park (as there is lots to do, it is different and has a beach), Poole Park (lots of space, exercise things, lots of places to sit), Whitecliff (lots of fun stuff), one near Puddletown Crescent on Canford Heath (climbing frames and everything), Poultons Park (lots of slides and climbing frames – mostly wooden). One person named Turlin Moor Pavilion as their favourite park. All but two mentioned Turlin Moor Pavilion as the park they visited most. Reasons given for using it were: Its close to home Lots of open space to play rugby and hang out with friends Come with my sisters and family Its quiet Swings are clean here (not like the ones at Foreland Road) Not loads of people Can watch the boys playing football Nearly everyone we spoke to wanted to keep the swings but said they needed painting and a few pointed out that they needed evening out. The open space was the next most popular thing to keep followed by the bench and the climbing frame. Additions to the park included: Mentioned several times: A really high slide (one that carries on for ages then stops and starts again). Or down the bank towards rugby pitches – perhaps double slides so we can race / twisty slide) Comfy funky benches (with ashtrays near, under shelter with light and radio) Zip wire Basket Swings Climbing frame (wooden with slide / like at Moors Valley / spider web) Mentioned once or twice: Just lots more stuff – including a roundabout Monkey bars Exercise equipment (but close together not too spread out) Goal posts Bouncy castle or trampoline Spinning cup More trees / little ones to climb More paths to ride on Little paddling pool Fireman’s pole Wooden houses with steps so you can climb on roof Some expressed fears of new equipment being damaged and therefore it was felt that anything that went in should be sturdy. 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 Turlin Moor Pavilion: Zip wire Water stuff Really high climbing frame with ropes Travelator (like in gladiators) Cycle monkey bars Challenging exercise stuff Massive skate park Graffiti wall so we can paint See saw
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 Turlin Moor Pavilion play area particularly: 45 pupils made comments on how they would like to see Turlin Moor Pavilion site improved. Keep in the park: Again the swings were mentioned 26 times as the most popular piece of equipment to be kept in the park. The following order was given for other pieces of equipment that young people would like to see kept (numbers in brackets): Climbing apparatus (13) Seating area (5) Goals (5) Baby bit (4) Forest / space (2) Everything (2) Nothing (1) Change in the park: The most popular change to the park would be to the climbing apparatus (the same number as would like to keep it, see above). Other changes are suggested below: The climbing apparatus (13) Swings (5) Everything (5) Space (3) Benches (3) Baby swings (3) Nothing (3) Additions to the park: “More play things added like those on Upton Rec – exercise equipment” (F, aged 11) “Make the apparatus bigger and put a long zip wire in and a few ramps for bikes. Change the swings to tyre swings. Put a see saw in and a big swimming pool for older children. A really swirly slide joined to the climbing frame” (F, aged 10) F = female M = male Bigger slide (4) Rebuild old MUGA (4) Zip wire (3) More stuff (2)

Youth Centre consultation