Pebsham kids get glimpse of exciting new play equipment

Rother District Council is investing 120,000 in bringing the children's playground at Seabourne Road up to date and putting in adventure equipment for older children on the nearby recreation ground.

Throughout the summer the council has been asking Pebsham children what they would like to see installed.

Parks development officer Rebecca Owen even took a party of four from Pebsham plus other children from Robertsbridge to Brentwood in Essex to see state-of-the-art new play equipment there.

Now Pebsham's children have given Rother their views and on Saturday afternoon it was their chance to see what the authority plans to buy and where it will put it.

First in to see the public exhibition was Miles Rees.

Miles is five. His eye was immediately taken by an illustration of the Supernova.

This is a revolving disc. But unlike a conventional roundabout it is set at a rakish angle.

By next Spring, old equipment in the playpark, some of it dating back to the Seventies will with the exception of the swings, have been replaced.

In addition to the Supernova, there will be a Shop-And-Slide Multi Unit. Parents and children said they preferred a single, multiple item to several smaller pieces of play equipment.

There will also be a Junior Multiple Unit, a spring animal and a Dragonfly.

The Dragonfly is the modern equivalent of a see-saw. Users can lay down on its arms.

By next Summer it is hoped the recreation ground will boast a Cable Wire Ride, a Pendulum Swing, a Teeter Totter and an Adrenalin climber.

Aerial photographs of the playpark and recreation ground had been marked with coloured-coded blobs to demonstration which equipment will go where.

The 120,000 is being divided between the two areas.

Ward member Cllr Charles Clark said provision of the two schemes should prove to those who doubted them the value of new Local Action Plans.

New facilities for Pebsham's young people had been put as key objective when local people responded to the plan drew up a list of priorities for the estate.

Pebsham has become the first Bexhill area to work on an action plan,