We are investing over £2.5 million over three years from 2009 to 2012 in refurbishing many of the city’s 87 play areas.
This is part of our policy to ensure that Oxford’s children and young people have easy access to a range of quality play opportunities within a practical walking distance from their homes.
The Oxford City Play Area Refurbishment Programme will see a complete overhaul of the current play areas with new play equipment, safety surfacing, landscaping and signage.
We have appointed
Groundwork Thames Valley, an environmental regeneration charity, to project manage the refurbishment programme.
Get Involved
Consultation events are held as the designs for each site are developed. Our project managers will talk to users of the play areas to find out how they should be designed and what play equipment you would like to see in your parks.
To find out how to take part in a consultation, or to learn about the proposed plans for a play area near you, please contact Groundwork Thames Valley on 01895 832662 or email oxfordplay@groundwork.org.uk.
Play Area Design
Please see the
Design for Play page of the Play England website for guidance material on play area design. Specific guidance on boundaries and fences for play areas can be found in Chapter 5 on page 68 of their Design for Play guide.
Play Pathfinder/Playbuilder Scheme
If you are looking for an opportunity to improve your local community by redeveloping a play area, please contact Groundwork regarding Oxfordshire County Council’s Play Pathfinder/Playbuilder Scheme or visit the
Playbuilder pages of the Oxfordshire County Council website.
The funding scheme supports play area development and refurbishment projects across Oxfordshire, and is available to parish and district councils, social clubs, residents associations, community associations, faith groups and other voluntary groups which are suitably constituted.
Groundwork offers a wide range of support services to anyone interested in developing a play area. These services range from landscape architecture to acting as your co-applicant, in the event that your organisation is not suitably constituted.
Play Area Site Map
The map below shows the location of play areas in Oxford.
Key
Sites where refurbishment has been completed
Red flag - Sites being refurbished in financial year 2009/2010
Blue flag - Sites being refurbished in financial year 2010/2011
Refurbishment Programme Site Status
NB This table is regularly updated to reflect the status of the programme
| Play Area Site
|
Ward |
Area Committee
|
Refurbishment Status |
Year 1 Sites
| Bernwood Road
|
Barton and Sandhills
|
North East
|
Complete
|
| Alexandra Courts
|
Summertown
|
North
|
Complete
|
| Botley Road Rec
|
Jericho and Osney
|
Central South and West
|
Complete
|
| Quarry Hollow
| Quarry and Risinghurst
| North East
| Complete |
| Meadow Lane
| Iffley Fields
| East
| Designs Complete - Works on site and due to complete July 2010
|
| Milham Ford
| Headington Hill and Northway
| North East
| Complete
|
| Cuddesdon Way
| Blackbird Leys
| South East
| Complete
|
| Gillians Park (Chaffinch Walk)
| Northfield Brook
| South East | Complete
|
| John Allen Centre
| Cowley
| Cowley
| Complete
|
| Normandy Crescent
| Lye Valley
| Cowley
| Complete
|
| Foxwell Drive
| Headington Hill and Northway
| North East | Complete |
| Ridgeway Road
| Quarry and Risinghurst
| North East | Complete |
| Rose Hill Rec (Spencer Crescent)
| Rose Hill and Iffley
| South East | Complete |
| Titup Hall Drive
| Churchill
| North East | Complete |
| Southfield Park Flats
| Cowley Marsh
| Cowley
| Complete
|
| Kiln Lane (Sermon Close)
| Quarry and Risinghurst | North East | Complete
|
| Ridgefield Road
| Cowley Marsh | Cowley
| Complete
|
| St Christopher's Place (Temple Road)
| Cowley
| Cowley
| Complete
|
| South Park
| St Clement's
| East
| Complete
|
| Fox Crescent
| Hinksey Park | Central South and West | Complete
|
| Bertie Place
| Hinksey Park | Central South and West | Complete
|
| Valenia Road
| Churchill
| North East
| Complete |
| Bartholomew Road (Gaisford Road)
| Cowley
| Cowley
| Complete
|
| Barton Bradley
| Barton and Sandhills | North East | Complete
|
| Kersington Crescent
| Cowley
| Cowley
| Complete |
| Campion Close
| Northfield Brook
| South East | Complete |
| Marigold Close
| Northfield Brook | South East | Complete |
| Rowan Grove
| Northfield Brook | South East | Complete |
| Woodpecker Green
| Northfield Brook | South East | Complete |
| Columbine Gardens
| Northfield Brook | South East | Complete |
| Greenfinch Close
| Northfield Brook | South East | Complete |
| Cholsey Close
| Cowley
| Cowley
| Complete
|
| Year 2 Sites | Angel and Greyhound Meadow | Holywell | Central South and West | Complete |
| Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park | Summertown | North
| Designs being finalised - construction to begin September 2010
|
| Hinksey Park | Hinksey Park | Central South and West | Complete |
| George Moore Close | Iffley Fields | East | Complete |
| Hunter Close | Lye Valley | Cowley | Complete |
| Nightingale Avenue | Blackbird Leys | South East | Design currently being produced
|
| Ridley Road
| Lye Valley
| Cowley
| Designs being finalised
|
| Court Place Farm
| Marston
| North East
|
|
| Falcon Close
| Northfield Brook
| South East | Designs being finalised |
| Florence Park
| Cowley
| Cowley | Consultation underway - construction to commence November 2010
|
| Dene Road
| Lye Valley
| Cowley | Designs being finalised |
| Freelands Road
| Iffley Fields
| East
| Awaiting confirmation of WREN grant in September 2010
|
| Bury Knowle Park
| Headington
| North East | Consultation underway - construction to commence November 2010
|
| Friars Wharf
| Hinksey Park
| Central South and West
| Designs being finalised |
| Preachers Lane
| Hinksey Park
| Central South and West | Designs being finalised |
| Five Mile Drive
| Wolvercote
| North
| On hold pending confirmation of proposed location
|
| Wolvercote Green
| Wolvercote | North | Designs being finalised |
| Lower Wolvercote
| Wolvercote | North | Designs being finalised |
| Mistletoe Green
| Northfield Brook
| South East
| Designs being finalised |
| Northway
| Headington Hill and Northway
| North East | Designs being finalised |
| Board Oak
| Churchill
| North East | Designs being finalised |
| Pegasus Road
| Blackbird Leys
| South East | Designs being finalised |
| Girdlestone Grass
| Churchill
| North East | Designs being finalised |
