The Ore Valley Adventure Playground has received planning permission and is now ready to go on site at the beginning of 2010. The playground building will be located in the currently delapidated Coach House in the southwestern corner of the Ore Valley. Heavily insulated timber rooms will be inserted in the refurbished shell, to house facilities such as a large kitchen, music and sensory rooms, toilets and changing rooms and a staff room.

The outside area will continue to evolve with the community and children’s participation, as a space that children own and are empowered to shape and design. The playground will offer a variety of inclusive play opportunities including places where children can build their own structures with storage containers full of tools and equipment, quiet areas, wild nature areas, water play, a fire pit, slides, zip line, places for digging and making dens. All trees will be retained on the site, and made use of for playing and growing food.

The design of the building and external spaces has been developed by a design team lead by architects East, with young people at Sandown School, Broomgrove Community Centre and The Bridge, after a design team selection process which involved the young users as well as the adult client team.