Works Scheme To Go Ahead At Sandown Park

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An Isle of Wight park will be upgraded with eight new pieces of play equipment as part of an approved works scheme.

Council planners gave Sandown Town Council (STC) permission to install play equipment and related impact absorbing surfaces at Los Altos Park.

STC’s plans include installing a horizontal rising ladder, monkey bar rings, a balance and weave, static balance beam, striding timber stilts, stepping log columns and chin up bars, all of which are wooden.

County Hall’s decision report said the equipment was ‘required’ for the ‘recreational operation’ of the park – a ‘public service administered’ by the town council.

STC’s application form said:

“The area around each piece of equipment will be levelled, excavated to form foundations for the equipment and prepared for safety surfacing.

“Impact absorbing surfaces will be laid beneath all play equipment. Regardless of surfacing requirements, all equipment will have a free space of 1.5 metres around it.

“The land has previously been used for the same purpose and while there is no historic planning application online, there are images of the equipment in the park and as land owned by the local authority and operated under licence by the town council it can be assumed this is an acceptable use.

“The town council has the power, under the Public Health Act 1875, to lay out, plant, and improve parks.”