active play
Springfields Adventure Land
Playscheme let its creativity run free in the design, manufacture and installation of one of its biggest outdoor play projects to date at Springfields Outlet Shopping & Leisure Centre.
THE result of a two-year project, Springfields Adventure Land plays a key role in the transformation of the outlet in Spalding, Lincolnshire. The huge new play area offers a variety of family-orientated fun and includes the UK’s largest JCB Young Drivers Zone, where children can drive in pedal powered mini diggers, enjoy the huge JCB slide, scaffold-themed climbing frame and use their imagination on other interactive play equipment. Playscheme worked with Springfields and
JCB to create a unified range of bespoke themed play equipment for children up to the age of 12. This included a life size pair of JCB digger excavation arms that were intricately laser cut to act as an archway entrance to the zone. The site is primarily dedicated to a wet pour rubber roadway which children navigate as they fill up at the fuel station, park at the grocery store or take their digger off-roading.
rock pool river system covered by a canopy measuring 20m x 20m for year-round play. In addition to traditional play items such as a tower system with a slide and group swings, a cascading water system flows under the canopy and leads to rock pools. Children can control the system’s flow, with a sluice gate at
Robinia timbers, with a cedar shingle roofs and complete with sound effects and lighting. The Tree Top Village comprises four timber
towers - the tallest tower stands 9m high - linked with a variety of nets, bridges and fully enclosed wobble ropes. Each unit is installed on a concrete pad with six steel feet and has a rustic cedar shingle roof and coloured Perspex windows, which casts magical light reflections into the tower adding to the fairy-tale of the tree top village. The star attraction is the forest floor sky net,
the gateway to each pool allowing them to fill up the rock pools, before opening the gate and releasing the water downstream into the next pool. Children can also search for treasure in the
Gold Panning area. The main structure and water tower are manufactured from wobbly
Playscheme designed a Half Built House -
created to look as though work is still underway on a building site - with a giant slide replicating a refuse chute and the higher levels surrounded by scaffolding for children to add to the façade of the building site. To maximise the full use of space, additional
play experiences were incorporated into the JCB zone including a 7m bouldering wall, sand play area with cement mixer, JCB timber excavator with slide as well as hard and soft landscaping embellishments – tunnels, mounds, log retention and seating.
year round play Ensuring play can be accessed all times of the year was a key requirements of the project. Springy’s Beach features a sand play area and
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approximately 100sq m of play netting, which is suspended between the towers and woodland trees, allowing children and adults to navigate their way through the tree canopy. Finally, Playscheme breathed new life into
the site’s crazy golf course by replacing and refurbishing the hard landscaping, 216sq m of artificial grass and nine putting holes.
www.play-scheme.co.uk www.springfieldsadventureland.co.uk
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