Polling firm Ipsos Mori interviewed parents, children and local authority staff in seven areas where play spaces had been updated as part of the study Children and Parents' Experience of Recently Improved Play Areas. The aim was to provide an indication of the likely impact of the £235m Play Pathfinder and Play Builder programmes to enhance play spaces in England.
Parents and children felt the areas to be "much improved", the researchers found, while local councils reported an increase in the number of users.
Children reported visiting the sites for longer, especially during the summer holidays, because there was more to do. Local authority staff said that, in some cases, different types of users, such as disabled children, were playing at the sites.
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