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Play areas
The Council is committed to a rolling provision of good quality
play facilities on sites identified as being of strategic
importance. Allerdale Borough Council currently owns eight
strategic sites and eight smaller, non-strategic sites.The aim
of each equipped play area is to provide play value with as wide a
range of play facilities as possible, whilst bearing in mind the
responsibility for health and safety, maintenance and
inspection costs.
Other play facilities are provided by Town/ Parish Councils and
voluntary groups. The Borough Council gives advice regarding
technical issues and funding opportunities as part of its enabling
role.
You can locate the nearest playgrounds to your home using the
Parks and Playgrounds layer of the Find my Nearest search on our
mapping pages.
Allerdale Borough Council's Strategic Play Areas
Allerdale Borough Council has eight
strategic sites. These are:
- Camp Road, Maryport
- Sandy Lonning, Maryport (to be constructed in
2012)
- Flimby Play Area, Flimby
- Hunters Drive, Seaton
- Vulcan Park, Workington
- Harrington Marina, Workington
- Harris Park, Cockermouth
- Bellbrigg Lonning, Cockermouth
Facilities
Each of the sites listed has play facilities for toddlers under
five and children from the ages of 5-12. Both the strategic and
non-strategic sites contain a swing set and strategic sites are
also equipped with the following: 
- Agility
- Swings
- Basketball
- Social Play
- Wheelplay
- Seating areas
- Dog proof fencing surrounds
Playground updates, events and activities
Ellenborough Moor
Developments
The Green at Ellenborough Moor is almost complete! The opening
will be held on Monday 21st May 2012 from 3:30pm
until 6pm. Hope to see you there!
The Green is a 
non-strategic play area that has received funding
from the Department of Education's PlayBuilder scheme. Once
completed the play area will be adopted by Maryport Town
Council.
Wicksteed Leisure Limited won the tender
following the school vote that took place between the 27
February 2012 and 2 March 2012. Local school
children voted on three short-listed designs.
Construction works for the play area included removal of the
existing swings and are expected to be completed by the 14 May
2012.
Plans available include the site
location plan, the
artisit's impression of the site and the layout of the site.
Sandy Lonning and Ellenborough Moor Developments
Sandy Lonning is the last of eight strategic play sites to be
built by Allerdale Borough Council and The tenders for Sandy
Lonning should be out in the spring of 2012.
2010/11 Play Area Review
In 1998 a strategic play policy was developed for
Allerdale which recommended removing any non-strategic sites
as they became unsafe. Due to a number of non-strategic play
areas reaching or about to reach end-of-life, in 2010 this
policy was reviewed.
In August 2011 the Executive considered the
review and agreed that although
non-strategic playgrounds must be removed when they reach
the end of their useful life as per the original play policy, if
alternative arrangements could be made for other groups (e.g.
community groups and town or parish councils) to take on the asset
in its entirety, then the Council would cover the capital costs of
replacement.
As a result of this decision we are currently
negotating with Town Councils on several of the non-stratgic sites
including the Green at Ellenborough Moor, Maryport; Towers Lane,
Greyrigg Avenue, Isel Road and Harris Park Extension, Cockermouth;
and Newlands Lane, Brewery House, and Siddick, Workington .