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Lavender Gardens playground refurbishment

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The Lavender Gardens playground (the small playground between Dorothy Road and Asda) is closed for nine days from today. The playground is being refurbished by the council, who will be installing some swings, a wooden activity trail and a climbing frame and slide and will be re-opened on Wednesday 28 October. This follows on from
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John Burns new playground

John Burns new playground

Yesterday I attended the official opening of the new ‘dual-use’ playground at John Burns School. Pleasingly the playground looks interesting, with plenty of exciting features.  When I see the playground in which I spent many hours of my childhood it’s more like a graveyard of ‘dangerous’ playground equipment, tarmac scars marking each piece’s passing. What
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