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Hundreds of playground developments are being mothballed following government spending cuts.

The Department for Education (DfE) has frozen grants to 132 local councils for up to 1,300 play area schemes – many of which were originally designed by children.

The only developments allowed to go ahead will be those where construction has already started.

It is unclear how many planned playgrounds will now be scrapped.

A DfE spokesman said the Government put plans on hold after it inherited "unrealistic spending commitments", insisting it was committed to "realistic and affordable" investment.

The £235m Playbuilder scheme, which started more than two years ago, was designed to develop 3,500 community playgrounds. Each local council was given funding to build 22 play areas by 2011.

But the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has singled out play as a target for cuts in order to protect frontline education services. He has also scrapped government targets for the number of play facilities councils must provide.

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Playground? In my day I was lucky to find a stick to play with.

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Playground? In my day I was lucky to find a stick to play with.

Stick? Luxury I used to dream of a stick!

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The playgrounds around here seem to attract groups of teens rather than children.

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I’m wondering what it is that the Tories have against children. They were again pondering stopping the free milk (and fruit - Essex CC gives free fruit to kids) until Cameron remembered Thatcher’s nick name. Instead they seem to be stopping playgrounds being built.

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I’m wondering what it is that the Tories have against children. They were again pondering stopping the free milk (and fruit - Essex CC gives free fruit to kids) until Cameron remembered Thatcher’s nick name. Instead they seem to be stopping playgrounds being built.

They don't vote and hopefully will not take it out against the Tories in later life.

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belchingmatt wrote:
Playground? In my day I was lucky to find a stick to play with.

Stick? Luxury I used to dream of a stick!


Dreams? DREAMS?!?! Pah! When I were a lad, we didn't have time to dream! My mother shoved some knitting needles and wool up into her womb and I had to knit my own baby clothes!






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It is probably because good Tory families have their own playgrounds bought from Harrods in their own gardens and so are unaffected by such cuts.

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Since playgrounds, parks etc are the responsibility of Local Authorities, they could always come up with the funding to build them.

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