Chase Lane Skate Park

Working with the community around Chase Lane Park we extended and refurbished the play area alongside reworked park entrances and an improved outside gym.

The playground is inclusive, for all ages, abilities and genders, featuring sensory and accessible play. Formal Make Space for Girls and ROSPA reviews were part of the design process.

Like an archipelago of play islands, the often waterlogged landscape has been shaped with raingardens and gently raised islands for play, with areas gradually transitioning from younger to older age groups.

Building on the park’s long-standing history with skateboarding, dating back to the 1980s with community-built ramps, a new state-of-the-art skatepark bowl, ramps and skateable objects were designed in collaboration with specialists BetongPark who also built this part of the playground.
​Existing fencing and play equipment have been refurbished, repainted and reused in new locations to provide engaging sequences of play across the islands, with new elements added, most significantly an innovative multilayered multi-use-games-area with space for multiple, sometimes made up, games to take place at the same time. The layered MUGA also includes seats and platforms to play on, sit on and socialise around.

The project was delivered by Ground Control and BetongPark for the London Borough of Waltham Forest with East as architects contract administrators.