Work under way to renew 19 children’s play areas
Play elements will be changed and improvements made to routes, paving and the spatial organisation of spaces. Accessibility criteria will be applied as these are very important in all revamps to play areas. The work is already under way in some spaces and will be carried out through until August. The projects form part of the Comprehensive Maintenance Plan, under the Pla Endreça.
The aim is to change play elements and improve play circuits taking into account accessibility criteria. At the same time, paving and furniture will be renewed and spaces reorganised to be able to separate gentle play areas from more active play spaces.
Accessibility is an important criterion in renewing children’s play areas. Because of this, all the projects adopt it to offer play possibilities for children with disabilities or functional diversity and with different degrees of challenge and motivation.
Work is already in progress in some areas and will be carried out over the coming months, with the final project expected to be completed in August. The budget planned for the work is 2 million euros and projects are part of the Comprehensive Maintenance Plan, under the Pla Endreça.
The 19 children’s play areas to be renewed are in the following locations in six of the city’s districts:
- Play areas in the Jardins de Josep Goday i Casals, inner quadrangle, C/ Emèrita Augusta-Av. Madrid.
- Play area in Plaça Comas.
- Play area in the Jardins Bacardí, in Travessera de les Corts, between C/ Comandant Benítez and C/ Benavent.
- Play area in Passeig de Sant Joan, between the streets of C/ Provença and C/ Rosselló.
- Play area in Plaça Cardona.
- Renovation and unification of two play areas in the Parc del Guinardó, next to C/ Nen de la Rutlla, to be turned into a single open space.
- Play area in the Jardins de Manuel J. Arnalot, in C/ Natzaret, between the Jardins de Violant de Bar and the Centre Cívic Casa Groga.
- Play area in Plaça de Paul Claudel, located in C/ Miquel Ferrà, between C/ Joan Alcover and Pg. Fabra i Puig.
- Play areas in the Parc de Josep Maria Serra Martí.
- Play area in Plaça de Gabriel Alomar, in Pg. Andreu Nin just in front of the Can Dragó stadium.
- Play area where C/ Alzinar and C/ Pierola converge.
- Play area in Plaça Josep Maria Huertas Claveria, just in front of the CEM Can Felipa.
- Play area in C/ Cantàbria with C/ Andrade.
- Play area in Rambla Prim, between C/ Guipúscoa and C/ Binèfar.
- Play area in the Parc de Sant Martí, located in C/ Huelva, between C/ Agricultura and C/ Treball.
- Play area in the Jardins de Joana Tomàs, in the inner quadrangle between C/ València, C/ Gabriel y Galán and C/ Mallorca.
- Play areas in the Parc del Port Olímpic, in C/ Salvador Espriu, between C/ Rosa Sensat and C/ Arquitecte Sert. The two existing play areas will be renovated.
- Play area in C/ Ramon Turró, with C/ Joan Miró.
- Play area in Plaça de Juliana Morell, in the inner quadrangle between C/ Besiers, C/ Jaume Huguet and C/ Tolosa.
