New Playground in Sight at Hammersmith Park

The children's playground at Hammersmith Park has been closed and fenced off, suggesting action at last after the children's climbing frames were removed in February and March of last year.

Despite promises that replacement would take "a few months", a year has passed and local parents are still waiting.

The poster apologising for the closure suggests that the works will be completed "by the end of March 2019".

Past experience suggests that we can take that estimate with a pinch of salt, but at least we can be reasonably confident that the new playground should be in place before the summer.  Hopefully.

Last year local residents got to vote on plans to improve the park, and since then LBHF has moved ahead with the new construction, albeit rather slowly.

Playground - fenced off

It is frustrating that our children have had nowhere to play for a full year. The example of Wormholt Park, where local parents had to wait seven years for the playground to be replaced (by which time their children had grown up), is not a promising one.

Repairs to the climbing mounds took 18 months

It also took LBHF 18 months to repair the damaged climbing mounds in Hammersmith Park, a repair which could surely have been done over a few days.

---Alex

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