Royal Park’s Nature Play named nation’s best playground by landscape architects

05/06/2016 21:21
Royal Park’s Nature Play named nation’s best playground by landscape architects

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“A Melbourne children’s playground designed to encourage risk-taking – through rocky outcropped terraces and lofty climbing ropes – has been crowned the nation’s best. It is known as Nature Play and sits in Royal Park, next to the Royal Children’s Hospital. ……Built for $5.5 million and opened last March, the park has 1200 trees, gullies, grasslands and a hill with dramatic city views. And, to the chagrin of many parents and the delight of their children, the park also includes a water play area encouraging kids to work together to pump and dam water, before finally being released it into a sandpit……Special team wheeling a patient in a hospital bed or wheelchair to the edge of play areas.”

Tess Michaels