Press release and photocall 9 June 2008
There will be a photocall at Mount Road, Goseley Estate at 10.40am on Tuesday 10 June, 2008 with Cllr Heather Wheeler, Leader of SDDC and Cllr John Lemmon, Chairman of the Housing and Community Services Committee
The half term holiday is over. The kids are back to school. South Derbyshire District Council is creating something for them to do over the long summer holidays and in the coming years. In the Council's Corporate Plan, which began in April this year, it promised to provide four new youth facilities for young people. Two are opening later this month and the final two are now being built.
Work began last week on multi-use games areas at Salisbury Drive recreation area in Midway and at Mount Street recreation area on the Goseley Estate in Hartshorne. The work will cost £152,000 and has been funded by Sport England, though its Community Investment Fund, the Safer South Derbyshire Partnership and Hartshorne Parish Council.
Says Cllr John Lemmon, Chairman of South Derbyshire Strategic Sports Group, "Hot on the heels of the two multi use games areas which have been built at Overseal and Woodville, work at Midway and on the Goseley Estate has started. We opened the new play area at Salisbury Drive last month and promised an area for older children. The promise is becoming a reality."
"These multi use games areas, known as MUGAs, provide a hard surfaced, all-weather playing area with goal ends and markings for a variety of ball games, such as five-a-side, tag rugby, netball, basketball and kwik cricket. During the summer holidays there will be coached sessions from the Council’s Sport and Youth Development team."
The MUGAs are being built so that young people have more healthy and active things to do.
For more information, click the image above to visit the Burton Mail for story and video interview.Cllr Lemmon continues, "After extensive consultation, especially with young people, we have created the South Derbyshire Youth Facilities Strategy, a long term plan to develop a range of youth-orientated facilities using our parks and open spaces. This project compliments a continuing programme of improvements to children's play areas and will mean that this summer there will be a lot more opportunities for children and young people to stay active, healthy and happy."
Pictures show Cllr Heather Wheeler, Leader of SDDC and Cllr John Lemmon, Chairman of the Housing and Community Services Committee