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MANEA MATTERS
COUNCIL UPDATE
Silver Band MANEA MA TTERS

NEW PARK FLOORING PROJECT
RoSPA FINDINGS
Every year the Parish Council receives an Description
inspection report from ROSPA. The report Gaps have opened up between tiles causing trip hazard.
includes a risk rating for all the play equipment in Tasks
the park. Our ROSPA report for 2019 highlighted Refit the tiles
Notes
that the gaps between the old rubber mats were Large gaps within the surface area can turn ankles. Gaps
increasing, creating a trip hazard for small feet. are larger than 30 mm where a foot could enter. This does
not comply to BS EN 1176 Part 1 Section 4.2.7.5 Repair
Our 2020 report confirmed that their condition surface
Risk Level MEDIUM Risk Score 8
was deteriorating further.
Following the 2019 report the parish council began gathering in quotes to have the mats removed.
The areas were rated so they could be replaced in the correct order if the budget wasn’t available to
complete all at the same time…

As soon as the Covid 19 lockdown was announced, along with the instruction that all public play
equipment was to be closed there was an obvious window to be able to complete the work without
too much disruption. The order was placed in March but within days of the purchase order being
sent the contractors decided to temporarily suspend their operations. Fast forward 10 weeks and
the contractors returned to work. We managed to secure a start date of July 9th and within days the
Government announced that play equipment would be re-opening on the 4th.

And so, with fantastic timing as ever, after we opened the park for 5 days on the 4th July we then
fenced it off for a week and a half! The final results were definitely worth it. The park is looking
amazing and next year’s ROSPA report should be all ‘green’.

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