Avenue Road Play Area and Community Garden (Hayling Island)
Update on Avenue Road Play Area
We wanted to thank you for your feedback on proposals to improve the play area at Avenue Road, Hayling Island, and to update you on the project.
This site was included in our 2024/25 programme for proposed play area refurbishments and the plans were to update the play area with more modern, inclusive equipment, and to create a community garden.
While Havant Borough Council owns the land at Avenue Road, there is a restrictive covenant in place that limits the work that can be carried out there. We have been unable to secure agreement from the covenant owner to carry out the kind of work that would be required to fully modernise the site and make it more accessible.
As a result of this, the council has had to pause the Avenue Road project and is reallocating the funds to improve another play area in Hayling Island at Southwood Road. The play area at Southwood Road had already been identified as needing refurbishment and was included in a future refurbishment programme.
Avenue Road play area remains open for use, and we will continue to regularly inspect it. We will try to repair or replace any equipment that fails.
Thank you once again for sharing your views with us and we will have more information about the plans for Southwood Road later in the year.
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Your views on a community garden
Thank you for your views on the Avenue Road play area and for those who would be interested in volunteering at a proposed community garden at this site.
We would now like to hear you think about a community garden in this area and would be grateful if you could answer a few short questions on this proposal via the below survey.
This will take you no longer than 5 minutes and will help inform this proposed project moving forward.
To give your views, please scroll down to the below survey. This is open until Monday 25 March 2024.