We asked you for feedback on our design proposals for a brand new Changing Places facility in Haggerston Park as part of a refurbishment of the public toilet building.
Accessible equipment providers and the Health Integration Team at Hackney Ark fed into the design process.
In addition to giving feeback on the design proposals, we asked people to share their ideas and feedback about managing access, promoting responsible use and letting people know the facilities exist.
The majority of respondents told us the proposed layout of the facility was as they would expect to find, but where people gave suggested improvements, these have been incorporated into the revised design.
People also shared their views about radar keys and door codes and ideas and recommendaitons about how can we can ensure people know about the new facility, can find the facitlity and use it appropriately.
We have revised the facility design as a result of the engagement exercise and the insight shared will also inform the design and installation of any accessible facilities we are able to provide in the future (subject to funding).
We asked you for feedback on our design proposals to improve the play area in Clapton Square.
24 local children, young people and families fed into the design process, helping to shape a set of designs to take out to public consultation. A further 101 people fed back on the design proposals, which included installing new equipment and creating a new entrance and a pathway.
As a result of the consultation we are introducing more challenging equipment for older children. We are also reviewing the amount of sand on site, the surfacing underneath equipment, the design of the climbable entrance and solutions to make the shelter more welcoming and less of a focus for anti social behaviour.
Work will start in spring 2022.
We asked you for feedback on our design proposals to improve the play area in Stoke Newington Common.
96 local children, young people and families fed into the design process, helping to shape a set of designs to take out to public consultation. A further 129 people fed back on the design proposals, which included installing new equipment and making the landscape more playable.
As a result of the consultation we have made a number of design changes including; keeping the play area fully enclosed; additional toddler swings and a trampoline.
Work is planned to begin on building the play area spring 2022.
We asked you for feedback on our design proposals to improve the play area in Haggerston Park.
78 local children, young people and families fed into the design process, helping to shape a set of designs to take out to public consultation. A further 103 people fed back on the design proposals, which included making it bigger, adding more equipment so that it appeals to a wider age range of children and making it more accessible.
As a result of the consultation we have made a number of design changes adding trees for shade and more equipment for older children, including more swings to create spaces where they can hang out and have fun as well as the play area’s younger users.
Work is planned to begin on building the play area spring 2022.
We asked you for feedback on our design proposals to improve the stream play area and the southern play area adjacent to Cowper Road in Butterfield Green.
37 local children, young people and families fed into the design process, helping to shape a set of designs to take out to public consultation. A further 100 people fed back on the design proposals, which included improvements to the stream area, installing new equipment and making the landscape more playable.
As a result of the consultation we have made a number of design changes including providing additional swings and monkey bars in the southern play area.
Work is planned to begin on building the play areas spring 2022.
We asked you for feedback on our design proposals to improve the play area in Clapton Pond.
57 people fed back on the design proposals. 70% liked the designs and 77% liked the proposed equipment. 81% supported the idea to add mounds to the lawn area to make it more playable. People also gave us feedback about other aspects of the play area that were addressed in the final set of designs and are outlined in the consultation report.
As a result of the consultation we changed the park gates to make them self closing and we will be installing new bins to make it easier to recycle onsite. We will also continue to discuss with the relevant teams the issue of pollution in and around the park and anti social behaviour.
Work was completed on th play area in November 2021.
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We asked the public for feedback on a draft Parks and Green Spaces Strategy. We wanted to check we’d got the focus right and that you supported the draft vision and commitments. We also included lots of open text questions to give you room to tell us your views, ideas and priorities.
Although the pandemic changed the way we undertook engagement, we were really pleased that 967 of you took part by filling in the survey, attending focus groups, or emailing in your feedback.
You told us you liked the look and feel of the strategy and how it had been co-designed with residents, staff, stakeholders and young people.
You told us you agreed with the commitments we had made around community engagement and environmental sustainablity. However you also told us we needed to place a greater emphasis on getting the basics right like safety, litter and public toilet facilities.
We used the comments, feedback and insight people shared with us to redraft the strategy, which was adopted by cabinet on 24 May 2021.
We asked unpaid adult carers about what they think an excellent service for adult carers in Hackney would look like.
You told us your thoughts on what is working well, what the barriers are and what needs to be improved.
We have used this valuable feedback to shape the design of the new service to give carers a better service in the future.
Shall we change the name of Hackney Road Recreation Ground to honour Thomas Fairchild?
What do you think about holding a market in the space and what kind of market should it be?
Why do you not use Hackney Road Recreation Ground?
Yes lets honour Thomas Fairchild and change the name of the space to Fairchild's Garden.
We think a farmers market would work well in the space.
Hackney Road Recreation Ground is unwelcoming and is not a very nice place to spend time.
We will offically change the name of the space and install new welcome signage.
We will explore the logistics of holding a farmers market in the space.
We will continue to look for funding to improve the park and make it more welcoming.